1. On my couch by night, I sought him whom my soul hath loved; I sought him, and I found him not!
2. --Pray, let me rise, and go round the city, In the streets and in the broad places, I seek him whom my soul hath loved! --I sought him, and I found him not.
3. The watchmen have found me, (Who are going round about the city), `Him whom my soul have loved saw ye?'
4. But a little I passed on from them, Till I found him whom my soul hath loved! I seized him, and let him not go, Till I brought him in unto the house of my mother--And the chamber of her that conceived me.
5. I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes or by the hinds of the field, Stir not up nor wake the love till she please!
6. Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, Like palm-trees of smoke, Perfumed [with] myrrh and frankincense, From every powder of the merchant?
7. Lo, his couch, that [is] Solomon's, Sixty mighty ones [are] around it, Of the mighty of Israel,
8. All of them holding sword, taught of battle, Each his sword by his thigh, for fear at night.
9. A palanquin king Solomon made for himself, Of the wood of Lebanon,