Friends
5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?

A relative
I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

Shulamite maid
6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Brothers
8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

Shulamite maid
10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

Lover
13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.

Shulamite maid
14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

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This song was composed in 2006.