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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/4.htm" title="Song of Solomon 4">◄</a> Song of Solomon 5 <a href="../songs/6.htm" title="Song of Solomon 6">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>I come to my garden, my sister, my bride;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I gather my myrrh with my spice,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I eat my honeycomb with my honey,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I drink my wine with my milk.</span></span></p></div><div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text">Eat, friends, drink,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and be drunk with love.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Another Dream</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I slept, but my heart was awake.</span><br /><span class="text">Listen! my beloved is knocking.</span><br /><span class="text">“Open to me, my sister, my love,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my dove, my perfect one;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for my head is wet with dew,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my locks with the drops of the night.”</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>I had put off my garment;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">how could I put it on again?</span></span><br /><span class="text">I had bathed my feet;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">how could I soil them?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>My beloved thrust his hand into the opening,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my inmost being yearned for him.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>I arose to open to my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my hands dripped with myrrh,</span></span><br /><span class="text">my fingers with liquid myrrh,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">upon the handles of the bolt.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>I opened to my beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but my beloved had turned and was gone.</span></span><br /><span class="text">My soul failed me when he spoke.</span><br /><span class="text">I sought him, but did not find him;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I called him, but he gave no answer.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Making their rounds in the city</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the sentinels found me;</span></span><br /><span class="text">they beat me, they wounded me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they took away my mantle,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">those sentinels of the walls.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">if you find my beloved,</span></span><br /><span class="text">tell him this:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am faint with love.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Colloquy of Friends and Bride</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>What is your beloved more than another beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O fairest among women?</span></span><br /><span class="text">What is your beloved more than another beloved,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">that you thus adjure us?</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>My beloved is all radiant and ruddy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">distinguished among ten thousand.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>His head is the finest gold;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">his locks are wavy,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">black as a raven.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>His eyes are like doves</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">beside springs of water,</span></span><br /><span class="text">bathed in milk,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">fitly set.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19681a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>His cheeks are like beds of spices,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">yielding fragrance.</span></span><br /><span class="text">His lips are lilies,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">distilling liquid myrrh.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>His arms are rounded gold,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">set with jewels.</span></span><br /><span class="text">His body is ivory work,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19683b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">encrusted with sapphires.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19683c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>His legs are alabaster columns,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">set upon bases of gold.</span></span><br /><span class="text">His appearance is like Lebanon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">choice as the cedars.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>His speech is most sweet,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and he is altogether desirable.</span></span><br /><span class="text">This is my beloved and this is my friend,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">O daughters of Jerusalem.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 5:12">Song of Solomon 5:12</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 5:14">Song of Solomon 5:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 5:14">Song of Solomon 5:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>lapis lazuli</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div 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