1. O that you were as my brother, that nursed at the breasts of my mother! if I should find you outside, I would kiss you; yea, I would not be despised.
2. I would lead you, and bring you into my mother's house, who had instructed me: I would cause you to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
3. His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
4. I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that you stir not up, nor awake my love, until it pleases.
5. Who is this that comes up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I awakened you under the apple tree: there your mother brought you forth: there she brought you forth that bore you.