Songs:5

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* I have come into my garden , my sister , spouse : I have gathered my myrrh with my spice ; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey ; I have drunk my wine with my milk : eat , O friends ; drink , yea , drink abundantly , O beloved . (note :)yea …: or , and be drunken with loves (:note ) * I sleep , but my heart waketh : the voice of my beloved that knocketh ,, Open to me , my sister , my love , my dove , my undefiled : for my head is filled with dew , my locks with the drops of the night . * I have put off my coat ; how shall I put it on ? I have washed my feet ; how shall I defile them ? * My beloved put his hand through the opening , and my heart was moved for him . (note :)for him : or , (as some read ) in me (:note ) * I rose up to open to my beloved ; and my hands flowed myrrh , and my fingers sweet smelling myrrh , upon the handles of the lock . (note :)sweet …: Hebrews . passing , or , running about (:note ) * I opened to my beloved ; but my beloved had withdrawn himself , was gone : my soul failed when he spoke : I sought him , but I could not find him ; I called him , but he gave me no answer . * The watchmen that went about the city found me , they smote me , they wounded me ; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me . * I charge you , O daughters of Jerusalem , if ye find my beloved , that ye tell him , that I sick with love . (note :)that ye : Hebrews . what , etc (:note ) * What thy beloved more than beloved , O thou fairest among women ? what thy beloved more than beloved , that thou dost so charge us ? * My beloved white and ruddy , the chief among ten thousand . (note :)the chiefest : Hebrews . a standard –bearer (:note ) * His head the most fine gold , his locks bushy , black as a raven . (note :)bushy : or , curled (:note ) * His eyes as of doves by the rivers of waters , washed with milk , fitly set . (note :)fitly …: Hebrews . sitting in fulness , that is , fitly placed , and set as a precious stone in the foil of a ring (:note ) * His cheeks as a bed of spices , sweet flowers : his lips lilies , dropping sweet smelling myrrh . (note :)sweet flowers : or , towers of perfumes (:note ) * His hands gold rings set with the beryl : his belly bright ivory overlaid sapphires . * His legs pillars of marble , set upon sockets of fine gold : his countenance as Lebanon , excellent as the cedars . * His mouth most sweet : yea , he altogether lovely . This my beloved , and this my friend , O daughters of Jerusalem . (note :)mouth : Hebrews . palate (:note )

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