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(Arranged by Sir James George Frazer, 1895)
I AM the rose of Sharon, | |
| And the lily of the valleys. | |
| As the lily among thorns, | |
| So is my love among the daughters. | |
| As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, | 5 |
| So is my beloved among the sons. | |
| I sat down under his shadow with great delight, | |
| And his fruit was sweet to my taste. | |
| He brought me to the banqueting house, | |
| And his banner over me was love. | 10 |
| Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: | |
| For I am sick of love. | |
| His left hand is under my head, | |
| And his right hand doth embrace me. | |
| I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, | 15 |
| By the roes and by the hinds of the field, | |
| That ye stir not up, nor awake my love, | |
| Till he please. | |
| The voice of my beloved! behold he cometh | |
| Leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills. | 20 |
| My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: | |
| Behold, he standeth behind our wall, | |
| He looketh forth at the windows, | |
| Shewing himself through the lattice. | |
| My beloved spake, and said unto me, | 25 |
| Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. | |
| For, lo, the winter is past, | |
| The rain is over and gone; | |
| The flowers appear on the earth; | |
| The time of the singing of birds is come, | 30 |
| And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; | |
| The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, | |
| And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell, | |
| Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away. | |
| O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, | 35 |
| Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; | |
| For sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. | |
| Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: | |
| For our vines have tender grapes. | |
| My beloved is mine, and I am his: | 40 |
| He feedeth among the lilies. | |
| Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, | |
| Turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart | |
| Upon the mountains of Bether. | |
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