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# Chapter 3
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1 On my bed by night
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I sought him whom my soul loves;
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I sought him, but 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 squares;
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I will seek him whom my soul loves.
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I sought him, but found him not.
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3 The watchmen found me
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as they went about in the city.
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“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
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4 Scarcely had I passed them
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when I found him whom my soul loves.
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I held him, and would not let him go
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until I had brought him into my mother's house,
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and into the chamber of her who conceived me.
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5 I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
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by the gazelles or the does of the field,
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that you not stir up or awaken love
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until it pleases.
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6 What is that coming up from the wilderness
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like columns of smoke,
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perfumed with myrrh and frankincense,
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with all the fragrant powders of a merchant?
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7 Behold, it is the litter of Solomon!
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Around it are sixty mighty men,
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some of the mighty men of Israel,
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8 all of them wearing swords
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and expert in war,
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each with his sword at his thigh,
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against terror by night.
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9 King Solomon made himself a carriage
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from the wood of Lebanon.
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10 He made its posts of silver,
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its back of gold, its seat of purple;
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its interior was inlaid with love
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by the daughters of Jerusalem.
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11 Go out, O daughters of Zion,
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and look upon King Solomon,
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with the crown with which his mother crowned him
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on the day of his wedding,
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on the day of the gladness of his heart. |