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I sought him, and I found him not.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They watching going about in the city, found me: Saw ye him that my soul loved?<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>As a little I passed from them till I found him my soul loved: I held him fast, and I shall not let him go till I brought him into my mother's house, and to the chamber of her conceiving me.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, if ye shall awake and if ye shall arouse love till he shall desire.<p> <A name="7"></a><p class="hdg">Solomon Arrives on His Wedding Day<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Who is this coming up from the desert as columns of smoke of burning incense, of myrrh and frankincense from all the powder of the trader.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold his bed of Solomon: sixty strong ones round about it from the strong ones of Israel.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All of them holding the sword, being trained to war: each his sword upon his thigh from terror in the night.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>King Solomon made for himself a litter from the woods of Lebanon.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Its pillars he made silver, its support gold, its seat reddish purple, its midst tesselated with love from the daughters of Jerusalem.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/songs/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Go forth, ye daughters of Zion, and look upon king Solomon; upon the crown his mother crowned to him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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