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they are also afraid of what is high, and terrors are in the way, and the almond is despised, and the grasshopper is a burden, and the caper-berry is without effect; (for man goeth to his age-long home, and the mourners go about the streets;)

Let us hear the end of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole of man.

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

Draw me, we will run after thee!—The king hath brought me into his chambers—We will be glad and rejoice in thee, We will remember thy love more than wine. They love thee uprightly.

While the king is at his table, My spikenard sendeth forth its fragrance.

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, So is my beloved among the sons: In his shadow have I rapture and sit down; And his fruit is sweet to my taste.

He hath brought me to the house of wine, And his banner over me is love.

His left hand is under my head, And his right hand doth embrace me.

My beloved is mine, and I am his; He feedeth [his flock] among the lilies,

Behold his couch, Solomon's own: Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty of Israel.

They all hold the sword, Experts in war; Each hath his sword upon his thigh Because of alarm in the nights.

Go forth, daughters of Zion, And behold king Solomon With the crown wherewith his mother crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Awake, north wind, and come, [thou] south; Blow upon my garden, [that] the spices thereof may flow forth. Let my beloved come into his garden, And eat its precious fruits.

My beloved put in his hand by the hole [of the door]; And my bowels yearned for him.

His head is [as] the finest gold; His locks are flowing, black as the raven;

His eyes are like doves by the water-brooks, Washed with milk, fitly set;

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, raised beds of sweet plants; His lips lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

His hands gold rings, set with the chrysolite; His belly is bright ivory, overlaid [with] sapphires;

His legs, pillars of marble, set upon bases of fine gold: His bearing as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars;

His mouth is most sweet: Yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, yea, this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.