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1.I am come into my garden, my sister, my 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^5-1, drink abundantly, O beloved.

2.I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

3.I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?

4.My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him^5-2.

5.I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet^5-3 smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

6.I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

7.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.

8.I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye^5-4 tell him, that I am sick of love.

9.What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

10.My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest^5-5 among ten thousand.

11.His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy^5-6, and black as a raven.

12.His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly^5-7 set.

13.His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers^5-8: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

14.His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl: his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires.

15.His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

16.His mouth^5-9 is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song of Solomon 5

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