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¶ O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother!
when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be
despised. |
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| 2 I would lead thee, and bring
thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee
to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate. |
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| 3 His left hand should be
under my head, and his right hand should embrace me. |
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| 4 I charge you, O daughters
of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please. |
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¶ Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her
beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought
thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee. |
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Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is
strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are
coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. |
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| 7 Many waters cannot quench
love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance
of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. |
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| 8 ¶ We have a little
sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the
day when she shall be spoken for? |
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| 9 If she be a wall, we will
build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose
her with boards of cedar. |
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I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one
that found favour. |
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| .11
Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers;
every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver. |
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My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a
thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred. |
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| 13 ¶ Thou that dwellest
in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it. |
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| 14 Make haste, my beloved,
and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices. |
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