I sought him whom my soul loveth:
I sought him, but I found him not.
3:2I said, I will rise now, and go about the city;
In the streets and in the broad ways
I will seek him whom my soul loveth:
I sought him, but I found him not.
3:3The watchmen that go about the city found me;
To whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
3:4It was but a little that I passed from them,
When I found him whom my soul loveth:
I held him, and would not let him go,
Until I had brought him into my mother's house,
And into the chamber of her that conceived me. \\ \\
3:5I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the roes, or by the hinds of the field,
That ye stir not up, nor awake my love,
Until he please. \\ \\
3:6Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness
Like pillars of smoke,
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
With all powders of the merchant?
3:7Behold, it is the litter of Solomon;
Threescore mighty men are about it,
3:8They all handle the sword, and are expert in war:
Every man hath his sword upon his thigh,
3:9King Solomon made himself a palanquin
Of the wood of Lebanon.
3:10He made the pillars thereof of silver,
The bottom thereof of gold, the seat of it of purple,
The midst thereof being paved with love,
From the daughters of Jerusalem.
3:11Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon,
With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him
In the day of his espousals,
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