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   'Til our wedding day".      She stepped away from me   And she moved through the fair   And fondly I watched her   Move here and move there.      And she made her way onward   With one star awake   As the swan in the evening   Moves over the lake.      Last night she came to me   She came softly in   So softly she came   but her feet made no din.      And she laid her hand on me   And this she did say:   "It will not be long love   'Til our wedding day".