1 - I am come into my garden, my sister, my bride: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends; Drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
2 - I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
3 - I have put off my garment; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
4 - My beloved put in his hand by the holeof the door, And my heart was moved for him.
5 - I rose up to open to my beloved; And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with liquid myrrh, Upon the handles of the bolt.
6 - I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. My soul had failed me when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
7 - The watchmen that go about the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my mantle from me.
8 - I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved, That ye tell him, that I am sick from love.
9 - What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thou dost so adjure us?
10 - My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.
11 - His head isasthe most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
12 - His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks, Washed with milk, and fitly set.
13 - His cheeks are as a bed of spices, Asbanks of sweet herbs: His lips are as lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
14 - His hands areasrings of gold set with beryl: His body isasivory work overlaid with sapphires.
15 - His legs areaspillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: His aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
16 - His mouth is most sweet; Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
