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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Night after night on my bed, I sought the one I love; I sought him, but didn't find him. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2I'll get up and go all around the city, throughout the streets, and in the squares. I'll seek the one I love. I sought him, but didn't find him. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3The watchmen who go all around the city found me. I asked, "Have you seen the one I love?" |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and wouldn't let him go until I brought him to my mother's house, to the room of the one who conceived me. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Swear to me, young women of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you won't awaken or arouse love before its proper time! |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6What is this coming up from the desert like columns of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and incense from all the fragrant powders of the merchant? |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7Look! It's Solomon's sedan chair, with 60 of the best soldiers in Israel surrounding it. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All of them are wearing swords and are experienced in battle. Each has his sword on his thigh, ready for the terror of the night. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9King Solomon made the sedan chair for himself from the trees of Lebanon. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10He made its posts of silver, its back of gold. Its seat was purple, and its interior was lovingly inlaid by the young women of Jerusalem. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Come out, young women of Zion, and see King Solomon with the crown with which his mother crowned him on his wedding day— his day of great delight. |
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