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Longing for Her Beloved
Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me.
Oh that you were like a brother to me
who nursed at my mother’s breasts!
If I found you outside, I would kiss you,
and none would despise me.
Longing for Her Beloved
O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
I would lead you and bring you
into the house of my mother —
she who used to teach me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate.
into the house of my mother —
she who used to teach me.
I would give you spiced wine to drink,
the juice of my pomegranate.
I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
His left hand is under my head,
and his right hand embraces me!
and his right hand embraces me!
His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
that you not stir up or awaken love
until it pleases.
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
Who is that coming up from the wilderness,
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
leaning on her beloved?
Under the apple tree I awakened you.
There your mother was in labor with you;
there she who bore you was in labor.
The Friends
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
Solomon
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
Final Advice
Others
We have a little sister,
and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day when she is spoken for?
Others
We have a little sister,
and she has no breasts.
What shall we do for our sister
on the day when she is spoken for?
The Friends
We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
If she is a wall,
we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
we will build on her a battlement of silver,
but if she is a door,
we will enclose her with boards of cedar.
If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
The Bride
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
he let out the vineyard to keepers;
each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
he let out the vineyard to keepers;
each one was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver.
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
My vineyard, my very own, is before me;
you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
you, O Solomon, may have the thousand,
and the keepers of the fruit two hundred.
My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
He
O you who dwell in the gardens,
with companions listening for your voice;
let me hear it.
O you who dwell in the gardens,
with companions listening for your voice;
let me hear it.
Solomon
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.