Songs:5

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* I am come to my garden , my sister , my spouse ! I gather my myrrh with my balsam , I eat my honeycomb with my honey , I drink my wine with my milk . Eat , O friends ! Drink , yea , drink abundantly , my loved companions ! * I slept , but my heart was awake ; It was the voice of my beloved , who was knocking : "Open to me , my sister , my love , My dove , my perfect one ! For my head is filled with dew , And my locks with the drops of the night ." * "I have taken off my vest ; How shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet ; How shall I soil them ?" * My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door , And my heart was moved for him . * I rose up to open to my beloved , And my hands dropped with myrrh , And my fingers with self –flowing myrrh , upon the handles of the bolt . * I opened to my beloved ; But my beloved had withdrawn himself , and was gone . I was not in my senses while he spake with me ! I sought him , but could not find him ; I called him , but he gave me no answer . * The watchmen that go about the city found me ; They smote me , they wounded me ; The keepers of the walls took away from me my veil . * I charge you , O ye daughters of Jerusalem ! If ye should find my beloved ,––What will ye tell him ? That I am sick with love . * What is thy beloved more than another beloved , O thou fairest among women ! What is thy beloved more than another beloved , That thus thou dost charge us ? * My beloved is white and ruddy , The chief among ten thousand . * His head is as the most fine gold ; His locks waving palm –branches , Black as a raven ; * His eyes are doves by streams of water , Washed with milk , dwelling in fulness ; * His cheeks are like a bed of balsam , Like beds of spices ; His lips are lilies Dropping self –flowing myrrh ; * His hands are gold rings set with chrysolite ; His body is wrought –work of ivory , overlaid with sapphires ; * His legs are marble pillars , resting on pedestals of fine gold ; His aspect is like Lebanon , Majestic like the cedars ; * His mouth is sweetness ; His whole being , loveliness . This is my beloved , This my friend , O ye daughters of Jerusalem !

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