1. Asleep on my bed, night after nightI dreamt of the one I love;I was looking for him, but couldn't find him.
2. I went wandering through the city,through its streets and alleys.I looked for the one I love.I looked, but couldn't find him.
3. The watchmen patrolling the city saw me.I asked them, “Have you found my lover?”
4. As soon as I left them, I found him.I held him and wouldn't let him gountil I took him to my mother's house,to the room where I was born.
5. Promise me, women of Jerusalem;swear by the swift deer and the gazellesthat you will not interrupt our love.
6. What is this coming from the desert like a column of smoke,fragrant with incense and myrrh,the incense sold by the traders?
7. Solomon is coming, carried on his throne;sixty soldiers form the bodyguard,the finest soldiers in Israel.