My young love said to me, My mother won't mind And me father won't slight you For your lack of kine. Then she laid her hand on me And this she did say: It will not be long, Love ‘Til our wedding day She moved away from me And she moved through the Fayre And fondly I watched her Move here and move there. She went her way homeward, With one star awake, As the swan in the evening Moves over the lake. Last night she came to me, My dead love came in. So softly she entered Her feet made no din. She came close beside me And this she did say: It will not be long, Love ‘Til our wedding day