1. "O, that you were like my brother, who sucked my mother's breasts! I would find you outside, I would kiss you, and they would not despise me.
2. I would lead you, I would bring you to the house of my mother, who instructed me; I would give you to drink some spiced wine, of the juice of my pomegranate.
3. His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand would embrace me.
4. I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem; why should you awaken, and why should you arouse the love until it is desirous?"
5. "Who is this coming up from the desert, embracing her beloved?" "Under the apple tree I aroused you; there your mother was in travail with you; there she that bore you was in travail."
6. "Place me like a seal on your heart, liked a seal on your arm, for love is as strong as death, zeal is as strong as the grave; its coals are coals of fire of a great flame!
7. Many waters cannot quench the love, nor can rivers flood it; should a man give all the property of his house for love, they would despise him.
8. We have a little sister who has no breasts; what shall we do for our sister on the day she is spoken for?
9. If she be a wall, we will build upon her a silver turret, and if she be a door, we will enclose her with cedar boards.
10. I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, then I was in his eyes as one who finds peace.
11. Solomon had a vineyard in Baal-Hamon; he gave the vineyard to the keepers; each one brought for the fruit thereof one thousand pieces of silver.
12. My vineyard, which is mine, is before me; you, O Solomon, shall have the thousand, and those who watch its fruit, two hundred.
13. You, who sit in the gardens the friends hearken to your voice; let me hear [it].
14. Flee, my beloved, and liken yourself to a gazelle or to a fawn of the hinds on the spice mountains."
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