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Apoteichisis

The Old Testament

Song of Songs 2

ΑΣΜΑ ΑΣΜΑΤΩΝ · 2

Brenton 2:1

I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.

Brenton 2:2

As a lily among thorns, so is my companion among the daughters.

Brenton 2:3

As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.

Brenton 2:4

Bring me into the wine house; set love before me.

Brenton 2:5

Strengthen me with perfumes, stay me with apples: for I am wounded with love.

Brenton 2:6

His left hand shall be under my head, and his right hand shall embrace me.

Brenton 2:7

I have charged you, ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the virtues of the field, that ye do not rouse or wake my love, until he please.

Brenton 2:8

The voice of my kinsman! behold, he comes leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.

Brenton 2:9

My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Bæthel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.

Brenton 2:10

My kinsman answers, and says to me, Rise up, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove.

Brenton 2:11

For, behold, the winter is past, the rain is gone, it has departed.

Brenton 2:12

The flowers are seen in the land; the time of pruning has arrived; the voice of the turtle-dove has been heard in our land.

Brenton 2:13

The fig-tree has put forth its young figs, the vines put forth the tender grape, they yield a smell: arise, come, my companion, my fair one, my dove; yea, come.

Brenton 2:14

Thou art my dove, in the shelter of the rock, near the wall: shew me thy face, and cause me to hear thy voice; for thy voice is sweet, and thy countenance is beautiful.

Brenton 2:15

Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines put forth tender grapes.

Brenton 2:16

My kinsman is mine, and I am his: he feeds his flock among the lilies.

Brenton 2:17

Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be thou like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.

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