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I am 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. |
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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. |
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I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them? |
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My beloved put in his hand by the hole , and my bowels were moved for him. |
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I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped myrrh, and my fingers sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock. |
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I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer. |
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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. |
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I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I sick of love. |
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What thy beloved more than beloved, O thou fairest among women? what thy beloved more than beloved, that thou dost so charge us? |
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10
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My beloved white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. |
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His head the most fine gold, his locks bushy, black as a raven. |
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His eyes as of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, fitly set. |
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His cheeks as a bed of spices, sweet flowers: his lips lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. |
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His hands gold rings set with the beryl: his belly bright ivory overlaid sapphires. |
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His legs pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. |
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His mouth most sweet: yea, he altogether lovely. This my beloved, and this my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. |