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* Oh , that you were like my brother , who nursed at my mother ’s breasts ! If I should find you outside , I would kiss you ; I would not be despised . * I would lead you and bring you into my mother ’s house , to teach me ; I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate . * To the Daughters of Jerusalem : His left hand under my head , and his right hand embracing me . * I charge you , O daughters of Jerusalem : Do not stir up nor awaken love until it pleases . * A Relative : Who is this coming up from the wilderness , leaning upon her beloved ? I awakened you under the apple tree . There your mother travailed with you ; there she travailed with you and bore you . * Shulamite to Her Beloved : Set me as a seal upon your heart , as a seal upon your arm ; for love is as strong as death , jealousy as cruel as Sheol ; its flames are flames of fire , a flame of YAH . * Many waters cannot quench love , nor can the rivers overflow it . If a man would give for love all the wealth of his house , it would be despised with contempt . * Relatives : We have a little sister , and she has no breasts . What shall we do for our sister in the day when she is spoken for ? * If she is a wall , we will build upon her a battlement of silver ; and if she is a door , we will enclose her with boards of cedar . * Shulamite : I am a wall , and my breasts like towers ; then I was in his eyes as one who found peace . * Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon ; he leased the vineyard to keepers ; everyone was to bring for its fruit a thousand pieces of silver . * To Solomon : My own vineyard is before me . You , O Solomon , may have a thousand , and those who tend its fruit two hundred . * The Beloved : You who dwell in the gardens , the companions listen for your voice ; let me hear it ! * Shulamite : Make haste , my beloved , and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices .

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