1<\/sup>Bride to Groom: 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?<\/span> <\/p>\n 2<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 3<\/sup>His left hand is under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.<\/span> <\/p>\n 4<\/sup>Groom to Chorus: I bind you by oath, O daughters of Jerusalem, not to disturb or awaken the beloved, until she wills.<\/span> <\/p>\n 5<\/sup>Chorus to Groom: Who is she, who ascends from the desert, flowing with delights, leaning upon her beloved? Groom to Bride: Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.<\/span> <\/p>\n 6<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 7<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 8<\/sup>Chorus: Our sister is little and has no breasts. What shall we do for our sister on the day when she is called upon?<\/span> <\/p>\n 9<\/sup>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.<\/span> <\/p>\n 10<\/sup>Bride to Chorus: I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers, since, in his presence, I have become like one who has discovered peace.<\/span> <\/p>\n 11<\/sup>The peaceful one had a vineyard, in that which held the peoples. He handed it on to the caretakers; a man brought, in exchange for its fruit, a thousand pieces of silver.<\/span> <\/p>\n 12<\/sup>Groom: My vineyard is before me. The thousand is for your peacefulness, and two hundred is for those who care for its fruit.<\/span> <\/p>\n 13<\/sup>Bride to Groom: Your friends are attentive to those who have been dwelling in the gardens. Cause me to heed your voice.<\/span> <\/p>\n 14<\/sup>Flee away, my beloved, and become like the doe and the young stag upon the mountains of aromatic plants.<\/span> <\/p>\n