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class="v22_3_3"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.3" class="v22_3_3">3</span>The sentries patrolling the city saw me.</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_3">I asked them, “Have you found my lover?”</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_4"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.4" class="v22_3_4">4</span>As soon as I left them, I found him.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_4">I held him and wouldn't let him go</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_4">until I took him to my mother's house,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_4">to the room where I was born.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_5"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.5" class="v22_3_5">5</span>Promise me, women of Jerusalem;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_5">swear by the swift deer and the gazelles</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_5">that you will not interrupt our love.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Third Song</h3><h5 class="sp">The Woman</h5><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_6"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.6" class="v22_3_6">6</span>What is this coming from the desert like a column of smoke,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_6">fragrant with incense and myrrh,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_6">the incense sold by the traders?</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_7"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.7" class="v22_3_7">7</span>Solomon is coming, carried on his throne;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_7">sixty soldiers form the bodyguard,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_7">the finest soldiers in Israel.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_8"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.8" class="v22_3_8">8</span>All of them are skillful with the sword;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_8">they are battle-hardened veterans.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_8">Each of them is armed with a sword,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_8">on guard against a night attack.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_9"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.9" class="v22_3_9">9</span>King Solomon is carried on a throne</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_9">made of the finest wood.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_10"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.10" class="v22_3_10">10</span>Its posts are covered with silver;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_10">over it is cloth embroidered with gold.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_10">Its cushions are covered with purple cloth,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_10">lovingly woven by the women of Jerusalem.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_11"><span class="reftext" id="Song.3.11" class="v22_3_11">11</span>Women of Zion, come and see King Solomon.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v22_3_11">He is wearing the crown that his mother placed on his head</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v22_3_11">on his wedding day,</span></p><p class="q2"><span 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