She Moves Through the Fair

My young love said to me, my mother won't mind

And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind

And she laid her hand on me and this she did say

'It will not be long now 'til our wedding Day'

And she went away from me, she moved through the fair

And fondly I watched her move here and move there

And then she went onward, just one star awake

Like the swan in the evening moves over the lake

The people were saying no two e'er were wed

But one had a sorrow that never was said

And I smiled as she passed with her goods and her gear

And that was the last that I saw of my dear

Last night she came to me, my dead love came in

So softly she came her feet made no din

And she laid her hand on me and this she did say

It will not be long now 'til our wedding day