She Moved 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