She Moved Through the Fair
Padraic Collum


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My young love said to me my mother won't mind
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And my father won't slight you for your lack of kind
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And she laid her hand on me and this is she did say
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It will not be long, love, till our wedding day


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And she stepped away from me and she moved through the fair
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And fondly I watched her move here and move there
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And then she turned homeward with one star awake
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Like a swan in the evening moves over the lake


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The people were saying no two e'er were wed
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But one had a sorrow that never was said
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And she smiled as she passed me with her goods and her gear
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And that was the last that I saw of my dear



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Last night she came to me my dead love came in
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So softly she came that her feet made no din
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And she laid her hand on me and this she did say
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Oh, it will not be long, love, till our wedding day