1. All night long on my bedI looked for the one my heart loves;I looked for him but did not find him.
2. I will get up now and go about the city,through its streets and squares;I will search for the one my heart loves.So I looked for him but did not find him.
3. The watchmen found meas they made their rounds in the city.‘Have you seen the one my heart loves?’
4. Scarcely had I passed themwhen I found the one my heart loves.I held him and would not let him gotill I had brought him to my mother’s house,to the room of the one who conceived me.
5. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge youby the gazelles and by the does of the field:do not arouse or awaken loveuntil it so desires.
6. Who is this coming up from the wildernesslike a column of smoke,perfumed with myrrh and incensemade from all the spices of the merchant?