The young man sits above the town in the glow of the setting sun
With his head held cradled in his hands, his back against a stone
Saying “Why have I so little time in this wretched place to stand
When I can’t take the girl I love back home to the Borderland, oh?
For I watch her dance upon the hill and I live but for her song
And she never dreamed I waited here so silent and so long
But her golden hair to strike me down and her brown eyes strike me blind
And the thought I’ll ne’er see her again is torturing my mind, oh”
The maid strolled down the hill nearby towards home in the end of day
And she caught the sound of the young man’s words and she stopped along her way
And the voice had she ever heard so sweet as the voice of the stranger lad
And she stood there as if turned to stone and listened from the shadows
And the young man’s words reached out to her where she stood upon the lea
And they built her ships upon the clouds and castles on the sea
And as he spoke her eyes did flash and burn as with a flame
And the maid stepped out around the stone as if he’d called her name, oh
“Pray lament no more,” she spoke, her voice like a gentle sea,
“For I have heard your every word and I know they’re meant for me,
And if you speak in truth my lad and you love me as you say
There can be no reason we must part, not even for a day, oh”
The young man started at her words and he stood up straight and tall,
He said, “I never meant for you to hear me speak this way at all,
For you can never have me love, it’s useless to deceive
For I must return to the Borderland, oh, I am bound to leave you.”
“I care not where you’re bound, my lad, I care not where you’re from,
For the one thing that I’m certain, ‛tis this maiden’s heart you’ve won.
So take me with you where you must, I freely go your way,
And I will lie here in your arms to greet the light of day, oh.”
Tenderly he laid her down and next to her did lie.
The wind that whispered through the trees was sweet as lullabye.
Bending low, he folded her into his soft embrace.
And with a touch he sent her fast asleep with a smile upon her face, oh.
“Sleep content, my love, he spoke, I could not cause you pain,
For the dawn will find me far away and I won’t be back again
And though I’d take you if I could, I am not what I seem
So forget we ever tarried here and wake as from a dream, oh.
“For I am not of your world, my love, I come from another time
And I crossed here from the Borderlands between your world and mine.
‛Twas there that I first heard your voice and longed for your face to see
And I gathered all the powers I had and stepped out on your lee, oh
Поскольку я не из твоего мира, любимая, я пришëл из другого времени,
И я прошëл сюда через Приграничье между твоим миром и моим.
Именно там я впервые услышал твой голос, и мне захотелось увидеть твоë лицо,
И я собрал все силы, которые у меня были, чтобы попасть на твой луг, ах.
“And you know I watched you quietly as you danced along the hill
And though I dared not call to you, I loved you stronger still
But no longer do I have the power, no longer can I stay
For I’ll be pulled back into my time by the dawning of the day, oh
“But I will be your pillow where e’er your head will lie.
And I’ll be the star you can only catch in the corner of your eye.
And I’ll be the sound of laughter in the first low flower of dawn.
And I’ll be the touch to brush your cheek and wake you in the morning…”
Saying this, he bended low and he kissed her once goodbye.
And as the dawn broke on the hill, he vanished like a sigh,
And the maid, she opened up her eyes and smiled up through the trees
For as she listened she could almost hear his voice upon the breeze, oh.
“Oh, I know you hear me love,” she spoke as she laid on her grassy bed,
“For I felt your touch, and I felt your kiss and I heard the words you said.
And the next time that our worlds combine cannot be very far
And I’ll be waiting then to take your hand and dance among the stars, oh.”
