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1 Bride to Groom: <font color=#0000CC>Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?</font> 2 <font color=#0000CC>I will take hold of you and lead you into my mother’s house. There you will teach me, and I will give you a cup of spiced wine, and of new wine from my pomegranates.</font> 3 <font color=#0000CC>His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.</font> 4 Groom to Chorus: <font color=#CC0000>I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.</font> 5 Chorus to Groom: <font color=#008800>Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved?</font> <V 8:6>Groom to Bride: <font color=#CC0000>Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.</font> 6 <font color=#CC0000>Set me like a seal upon your heart, like a seal upon your arm. For love is strong, like death, and envy is enduring, like hell: their lamps are made of fire and flames.</font> 7 <font color=#CC0000>A multitude of waters cannot extinguish love, nor can a river overwhelm it. If a man were to give all the substance of his house in exchange for love, he would despise it as nothing.</font> 8 Chorus: <font color=#008800>Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?</font> 9 <font color=#008800>If she is a wall, let us build a rampart of silver upon it. If she is a door, let us join it together with boards of cedar.</font> Song of Solomon 8:1-9, Catholic Public Domain Version. Public domain.
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