1. By night on my bed,I sought him whom my soul loves.I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
2. I will get up now, and go about the city;in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves.I sought him, but I didn’t find him.
3. The watchmen who go about the city found me;“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
4. I had scarcely passed from them,when I found him whom my soul loves.I held him, and would not let him go,until I had brought him into my mother’s house,into the room of her who conceived me.
5. I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,by the roes, or by the hinds of the field,that you not stir up, nor awaken love,until it so desires.