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 stepped away from me And this she did say: It will not be long, love, Till our wedding day. As she stepped away from me And she moved through the fair And fondly I watched her Move here and move there. And then she turned homeward, With one star awake, Like the swan in the evening Moves over the lake. Last night she came to me, My dead love came in. So softly she came That her feet made no din. As she come close beside me, And this she did say: It will not be long, love, 'Til our wedding day.