1. If only you were as my brother—the one who nursed at my mother’s breast.I would find you in the street and kiss you,and no one would shame me for it.
2. I would lead you, I would bring youto my mother’s house;she would teach me what to do.I would give you spiced wine to drink,some of my fresh pomegranate juice.
3. His left arm is beneath my head,and his right embraces me!
4. Make a solemn pledge,daughters of Jerusalem,never to rouse, never to arouse loveuntil it desires.[Daughters of Jerusalem]