My love said to me   My mother won't mind   And me father won't slight you   For you lack of kind   Then she stepped away from me   And this she did say   It will not be long love   Till 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 went her way homeward   With on star awake   As the swans in the evening   Move over the lake      The people were saying   No two e'er were wed   But one has a sorrow   That never was said   And she smiled as she passed me   With her goods and her gear      And that was the last   That I saw of my dear      I dreamed last night   That my true 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   Till our wedding day