Song of Solomon
5 [He.] I have entered my garden, my sister, bride, I have plucked my myrrh with my balsam, I have eaten the honey of my thicket, I have drunk my wine with my milk:—Eat ye, O friends, Drink, yea drink abundantly, ye beloved!
2 [She.] I was sleeping but my heart was awake,—The voice of my beloved—knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the moisture of the night.
3 I have put off my tunic, oh how shall I put it on? I have bathed my feet, oh how shall I soil them?
4 My beloved thrust in his hand at the window, And my feelings were deeply moved for him:
5 I myself arose to open to my beloved,—And my hands dripped with myrrh And my fingers with myrrh distilling, Upon the handles of the bolt.
6 I myself opened to my beloved, But my beloved had turned away, had passed on,—My soul had gone out when he spake, I sought him but found him not, I called him but he answered not.
7 The watchmen who were going round in the city found me, They smote me, wounded me,—The watchmen of the walls took away my cloak from off me.
8 I adjure you, ye daughters of Jerusalem,—If ye find my beloved what will ye tell him? That sick with love I am.
9 [Daughters of Jerusalem.] What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, Thou most beautiful among women? What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, That thus thou hast adjured us?
10 [She.] My beloved is white and ruddy, Conspicuous beyond ten thousand:
11 His head is pure gold,—His locks are bushy, black as a raven;
12 His eyes like doves by the channels of water,—Bathing in milk, set as gems in a ring:
13 His cheeks like a raised bed of balsam, Growing plants of perfume,—His lips lilies, dripping with myrrh distilling:
14 His hands cylinders of gold, set with topaz,—His body wrought work of ivory, covered with sapphires:
15 His legs pillars of white marble, founded on sockets of gold,—His form like Lebanon, choice as cedars:
16 His mouth most sweet, Yea altogether he is delightful,—This is my beloved, Yea this is my dear one, ye daughters of Jerusalem.