As the lily among thorns, soismy love among the daughters.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, soismy beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruitwassweet to my taste.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over mewaslove.
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for Iamsick of love.
His left handisunder my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awakemylove, till he please.
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.
For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is overandgone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singingof birdsis come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vineswiththe tender grape give agoodsmell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
O my dove,that artin the clefts of the rock, in the secretplacesof the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweetisthy voice, and thy countenanceiscomely.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vineshavetender grapes.
My belovedismine, and Iamhis: he feedeth among the lilies.
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.