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Thread #869   Message #2087950
Posted By: Jim Dixon
27-Jun-07 - 12:43 AM
Thread Name: Origins: She Moves through the Fair
Subject: Lyr Add: SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR (Padraic Colum
With Google Book Search, you can view "Wild Earth and Other Poems" by Padraic Colum, 1916, which contains this poem. I don't think this exact version has been posted at Mudcat before. I have boldfaced the differences between this version and the version in the DT.

SHE MOVED THROUGH THE FAIR

My young love said to me, "My brothers won't mind,
And my parents 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, till our wedding day."

She stepped away from me and she moved through the fair,
And fondly I watched her go here and go there,
Then she went her way homeward 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 smiled as she passed with her goods and her gear,
And that was the last that I saw of my dear.

I dreamt it last night that my young 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."