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align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../songs/1.htm" title="Song of Solomon 1">◄</a> Song of Solomon 2 <a href="../songs/3.htm" title="Song of Solomon 3">►</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 am a rose<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19626a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> of Sharon,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a lily of the valleys.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>As a lily among brambles,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so is my love among maidens.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>As an apple tree among the trees of the wood,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">so is my beloved among young men.</span></span><br /><span class="text">With great delight I sat in his shadow,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and his fruit was sweet to my taste.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>He brought me to the banqueting house,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and his intention toward me was love.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Sustain me with raisins,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">refresh me with apples;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for I am faint with love.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>O that his left hand were under my head,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and that his right hand embraced me!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">by the gazelles or the wild does:</span></span><br /><span class="text">do not stir up or awaken love</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">until it is ready!</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Springtime Rhapsody</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The voice of my beloved!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Look, he comes,</span></span><br /><span class="text">leaping upon the mountains,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">bounding over the hills.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>My beloved is like a gazelle</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or a young stag.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Look, there he stands</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">behind our wall,</span></span><br /><span class="text">gazing in at the windows,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">looking through the lattice.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>My beloved speaks and says to me:</span><br /><span class="text">“Arise, my love, my fair one,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and come away;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>for now the winter is past,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the rain is over and gone.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>The flowers appear on the earth;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the time of singing has come,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and the voice of the turtledove</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">is heard in our land.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The fig tree puts forth its figs,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the vines are in blossom;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they give forth fragrance.</span></span><br /><span class="text">Arise, my love, my fair one,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and come away.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>O my dove, in the clefts of the rock,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in the covert of the cliff,</span></span><br /><span class="text">let me see your face,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">let me hear your voice;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for your voice is sweet,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and your face is lovely.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Catch us the foxes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the little foxes,</span></span><br /><span class="text">that ruin the vineyards—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for our vineyards are in blossom.”</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>My beloved is mine and I am his;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he pastures his flock among the lilies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Until the day breathes</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the shadows flee,</span></span><br /><span class="text">turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or a young stag on the cleft mountains.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-19642b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></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 2:1">Song of Solomon 2:1</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>crocus</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Song of Solomon 2:17">Song of Solomon 2:17</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>on the mountains of Bether</i>; meaning of Heb 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