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1 | O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my
mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee;
yea, I should not be despised. |
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2 | I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who
would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine
of the juice of my pomegranate. |
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3 | His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand
should embrace me. |
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4 | I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up,
nor awake my love, until he please. |
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5 | Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon
her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy
mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that
bare thee. |
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6 | Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave:
the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most
vehement flame. |
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7 | Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown
it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for
love, it would utterly be contemned. |
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8 | We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall
we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? |
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9 | If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver:
and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of
cedar. |
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10 | I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his
eyes as one that found favour. |
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11 | Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard
unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a
thousand pieces of silver. |
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12 | My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon,
must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof
two hundred. |
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13 | Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to
thy voice: cause me to hear it. |
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14 | Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a
young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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