1. On my bed in the night I longed for the one my soul loves. I looked for him but did not find him.
2. I will get up and go about the city, into the streets and into the squares. I must seek the one my soul loves. I looked for him but did not find him.
3. The guards patrolling the city found me. “Have you seen the one my soul loves?”
4. Hardly had I passed beyond them when I found the one my soul loves. I held him, and I would not let him go, until I brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of her who conceived me.
5. Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you, by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it delights.