2 As the lily among thorns so is my love among the daughters

3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood so is my beloved among the sons I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste

4 He brought me to the banqueting house and his banner over me was love

5 Stay me with flagons comfort me with apples for I am sick of love

6 His left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace me

7 I charge you O ye daughters of Jerusalem by the roes and by the hinds of the field that ye stir not up nor awake my love till he please

8 The voice of my beloved behold he cometh leaping upon the mountains skipping upon the hills

9 My beloved is like a roe or a young hart behold he standeth behind our wall he looketh forth at the windows shewing himself through the lattice

10 My beloved spake and said unto me Rise up my love my fair one and come away

11 For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone

12 The flowers appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land

13 The fig tree putteth forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell Arise my love my fair one and come away

14 O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock in the secret places of the stairs let me see thy countenance let me hear thy voice for sweet is thy voice and thy countenance is comely

15 Take us the foxes the little foxes that spoil the vines for our vines have tender grapes

16 My beloved is mine and I am his he feedeth among the lilies

17 Until the day break and the shadows flee away turn my beloved and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether