Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth; for your love is better than wine.

By night on my bed, I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.

The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the chamber of her who conceived me.

Go forth, you daughters of Zion, and see king Solomon, with the crown with which his mother has crowned him, in the day of his weddings, in the day of the gladness of his heart.

My beloved thrust his hand in through the latch opening. My heart pounded for him.

I opened to my beloved; but my beloved left; and had gone away. My heart went out when he spoke. I looked for him, but I did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.

I adjure you, daughters of Jerusalem, If you find my beloved, that you tell him that I am faint with love.

Where has your beloved gone, you fairest among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?