Canticle of Canticles 2

¹ I am a flower of Sharon,

² As a lily among thorns,

³ As an apple tree among the trees of the woods,

⁴ He brings me into the banquet hall

⁵ Strengthen me with raisin cakes,

⁶ His left hand is under my head

⁷ I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem,

⁸ Hark! my lover-here he comes

⁹ My lover is like a gazelle

¹⁰ My lover speaks; he says to me,

¹¹ "For see, the winter is past,

¹² The flowers appear on the earth,

¹³ The fig tree puts forth its figs,

¹⁴ "O my dove in the clefts of the rock,

¹⁵ Catch us the foxes, the little foxes

¹⁶ My lover belongs to me and I to him;

¹⁷ Until the day breathes cool and the shadows lengthen,