SHE MOVES 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"
Then 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
Then she made her way
homeward
With one star awake
As the swan in the evening
Moves over the lake
I dreamt it last night
That my dead love came
in
So softly she moved
That her feet made no
din
Then she came close beside
me
And this she did say
"It will not be long
love, til our Wedding day"
Padriac Colum/Herbert
Hughes