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1 Bride: <font color=#0000CC>On my bed, throughout the night, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.</font> 2 <font color=#0000CC>I will rise up, and I will circle through the city. Through the side streets and thoroughfares, I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, and did not find him.</font> 3 <font color=#0000CC>The watchers who guard the city found me: “Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”</font> 4 <font color=#0000CC>When I had passed by them a little, I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not release him, until I would bring him into my mother’s house, and into the chamber of her who bore me.</font> 5 Groom to Chorus: <font color=#CC0000>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the does and the stags of the open field, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.</font> 6 Chorus to Groom: <font color=#008800>Who is she, who ascends through the desert, like a staff of smoke from the aromatics of myrrh, and frankincense, and every powder of the perfumer?</font> 7 Chorus to Bride: <font color=#008800>Lo, sixty strong ones, out of all the strongest in Israel, stand watch at the bed of Solomon,</font> 8 <font color=#008800>all holding swords and well-trained in warfare, each one’s weapon upon his thigh, because of fears in the night.</font> 9 Bride to Chorus: <font color=#0000CC>King Solomon made himself a portable throne from the wood of Lebanon.</font> Song of Solomon 3:1-9, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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