Thou art a well kept garden, O my sister, my spouse, thou are a well kept watering spring, and a sealed well.

You are a garden spring,
a well of flowing water
streaming from Lebanon.

His eyes [are] like doves beside springs of water, bathed in milk, {set like mounted jewels}.

The flowers, have appeared in the earth, the time of the spring-song, hath come, - and, the voice of the turtle, is heard in our land;

Much water may not put out love, or the deep waters overcome it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would be judged a price not great enough.