Song of Songs, Chapter 5

1. [HE] I have entered my garden, my sister, bride, I have plucked my myrrh, with my balsam, I have eaten the honey of my thicket, I have drunk my wine, with my milk: -- Eat ye, O friends, Drink, yea drink abundantly, ye beloved! [****]    2. [SHE] I, was sleeping, but, my heart, was awake, -- The voice of my beloved -- knocking! Open to me, my sister, my fair one, my dove, my perfect one, for, my head, is filled with dew, my locks, with the moisture of the night.    3. I have put off my tunic, oh how shall I put it on? I have bathed my feet, oh how shall I soil them?    4. My beloved, thrust in his hand, at the window, and, my feelings, were deeply moved for him:    5. I myself, arose, to open to my beloved, -- and, my hands, dripped with myrrh, and, my fingers, with myrrh distilling, upon the handles of the bolt.    6. I myself, opened to my beloved, but, my beloved, had turned away, had passed on, -- My soul, had gone out when he spake, I sought him, but found him not, I called him, but he answered not.    7. The watchmen who were going round in the city, found me, they smote me, wounded me, -- The watchmen of the walls, took away my cloak from off me.    8. I adjure you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, -- If ye find my beloved, what will ye tell him? That, sick with love, I am.    9. [DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM] What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, thou most beautiful among women? What is thy beloved more than any other beloved, that, thus, thou hast adjured us?    10. [SHE.] My beloved, is white and ruddy, conspicuous beyond ten thousand:    11. His head, is pure gold, -- his locks, are bushy, black as a raven;    12. His eyes, like doves, by the channels of water, -- bathing in milk, set as gems in a ring:    13. His cheeks, like a raised bed of balsam, growing plants of perfume, -- His lips, lilies, dripping with myrrh distilling:    14. His hands, cylinders of gold, set with topaz, -- His body, wrought work of ivory, covered with sapphires:    15. His legs, pillars of white marble, founded on sockets of gold, -- His form, like Lebanon, choice as cedars:    16. His mouth, most sweet, yea, altogether, he is delightful, -- This, is my beloved, yea, this, is my dear one, ye daughters of Jerusalem.