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5 I have come to my garden—my sister, my bride.
I gatherJ my myrrh with my spices.
I eat my honeycomb with my honey.
I drink my wine with my milk.
Narrator
Eat, friends!
Drink, be intoxicated with caresses!K,ad
2 I was sleeping, but my heart was awake.
A sound! My love was knocking!a
Man
Open to me, my sister, my darling,
my dove, my perfect one.
For my head is drenched with dew,
my hair with droplets of the night.
3 I have taken off my clothing.b
How can I put it back on?
I have washed my feet.
How can I get them dirty?
4 My love thrust his hand through the opening,
and my feelings were stirred for him.
My hands dripped with myrrh,c
my fingers with flowing myrrh
on the handles of the bolt.
but my love had turned and gone away.
My heart sankA because he had left.B
I sought him, but did not find him.d
I called him, but he did not answer.
7 The guards who go about the city found me.e
They beat and wounded me;
they took my cloakC from me—
the guardians of the walls.f
8 Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you,g
if you find my love,
tell him that I am lovesick.h
9 What makes the one you love better than another,
most beautiful of women?i
What makes him better than another,
that you would give us this charge?
10 My love is fit and strong,D,j
notable among ten thousand.k
and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like dovesm
beside flowing streams,
washed in milk
and set like jewels.F
13 His cheeksn are like beds of spice,
mounds ofG perfume.
His lips are lilies,
dripping with flowing myrrh.o
14 His armsH are rods of gold
His bodyJ is an ivory panel
covered with lapis lazuli.q
15 His legs are alabaster pillars
set on pedestals of pure gold.
His presence is like Lebanon,r
as majestic as the cedars.s
He is absolutely desirable.t
This is my love, and this is my friend,
young women of Jerusalem.
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