The Bride's Reverie |
1 | By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth:
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I sought him, but I found him not. |
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2 | I will rise now, and go about the city
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in the streets, and in the broad ways |
I will seek him whom my soul loveth: |
I sought him, but I found him not. |
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3 | The watchmen that go about the city found me:
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to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? |
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4 | It was but a little that I passed from them,
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but I found him whom my soul loveth: |
I held him, and would not let him go, |
until I had brought him into my mother's house, |
and into the chamber of her that conceived me. |
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5 | I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
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by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, |
that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, |
till he please. |
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The Wedding Procession |
6 | Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke,
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perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, |
with all powders of the merchant? |
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7 | Behold his bed, which is Solomon's;
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threescore valiant men are about it, |
of the valiant of Israel. |
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8 | They all hold swords,
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being expert in war: |
every man hath his sword upon his thigh |
because of fear in the night. |
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9 | King Solomon made himself a chariot
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10 | He made the pillars thereof of silver,
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the bottom thereof of gold, |
the covering of it of purple, |
the midst thereof being paved with love, |
for the daughters of Jerusalem. |
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11 | Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon
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with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him |
in the day of his espousals, |
and in the day of the gladness of his heart. |
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