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2:1  I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
2:2  Like a lily among thorns is my darling among the young women.
2:3  Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.
2:4  Let him lead me to the banquet hall, and let his banner over me be love.
2:5  Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint with love.
2:6  His left arm is under my head, and his right arm embraces me.
2:7  Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the gazelles and by the does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires.
2:8  Listen! My beloved! Look! Here he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding over the hills.
2:9  My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look! There he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, peering through the lattice.
2:10  My beloved spoke and said to me, "Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me.
2:11  See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.
2:12  Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
2:13  The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me."
2:14  My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places on the mountainside, show me your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.
2:15  Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.
2:16  My beloved is mine and I am his; he browses among the lilies.
2:17  Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or like a young stag on the rugged hills.