My young love said to me " My mother won't mind And my father won't slight for your lack of kind And he stepped away from me and this he did say "It will not be long, love, till our wedding day He stepped away from me and he went through the fair And fondly I watched him move here and move there And then he went honward with one star awake As the swan in the evening moves over the lake The people were saying "No two were e'er wed But one had a sorrow that never was said And I smile as he passed with his goods and his gear And that was the last that I saw of my dear Last night he came to me, he came softly in So softly he came that his feet made no din And he laid his hand on me and this he did say "It will not be long, love, till our wedding day