This song is in the Digital Traditon with no background or source information. It doesn't show up in the Traditional Ballad Index or the Roud Index, and all the sources I traced through Google, lead back to the Digital Tradition. So, where's the song from?
-Joe Offer-

For the sake of discussion, here are the lyrics. Note that we don't have a tune (and we'd like one)

HE QUIET MISTS OF MORNING

The elder lass walked out alone In the quiet mists of morning.
The fields were black as the blackest stone and the springtime was a coming

She dipped her hand into a stream In the quiet mists of morning.
To look on how the elders leaned And the springtime were a coming

She met a gently smiling man In the quiet mists of morning.
He took her softly by the hand and the springtime were a flowering

They lay them down in the birchwood glade In the quiet mists of morning.
She were going to be no more a maid and the summertime were a coming

He took her up and held her there In the quiet mists of morning.
She were a bird he were a star And the summer were a blazing

And when she thought to look at him In the quiet mists of morning.
She held an oak tree in her hand And the winter snows were falling

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