Noyes - Song of Solomon - 5

5:1  [Lov.] I am come to my garden, my sister, my spouse! I gather my myrrh with my balsam, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends! Drink, yea, drink abundantly, my loved companions!

5:2  [M.] I slept, but my heart was awake; It was the voice of my beloved, who was knocking: "Open to me, my sister, my love, My dove, my perfect one! For my head is filled with dew, And my locks with the drops of the night."

5:3  "I have taken off my vest [said I]; How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; How shall I soil them?"

5:4  My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, And my heart was moved for him.

5:5  I rose up to open to my beloved, And my hands dropped with myrrh, And my fingers with self-flowing myrrh, upon the handles of the bolt.

5:6  I opened to my beloved; But my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone. I was not in my senses while he spake with me! I sought him, but could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

5:7  The watchmen that go about the city found me; They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away from me my veil.

5:8  I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem! If ye should find my beloved,—What will ye tell him? That I am sick with love.

5:9  [Lad.] What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women! What is thy beloved more than another beloved, That thus thou dost charge us?

5:10  [M.] My beloved is white and ruddy, The chief among ten thousand.

5:11  His head is as the most fine gold; His locks waving palm-branches, Black as a raven;

5:12  His eyes are doves by streams of water, Washed with milk, dwelling in fulness;

5:13  His cheeks are like a bed of balsam, Like beds of spices; His lips are lilies Dropping self-flowing myrrh;

5:14  His hands are gold rings set with chrysolite; His body is wrought-work of ivory, overlaid with sapphires;

5:15  His legs are marble pillars, resting on pedestals of fine gold; His aspect is like Lebanon, Majestic like the cedars;

5:16  His mouth is sweetness; His whole being, loveliness. This is my beloved, This my friend, O ye daughters of Jerusalem!