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5:1  M I have come to my garden--my sister, my bride. I gather my myrrh with my spices. I eat my honeycomb with my honey. I drink my wine with my milk. N Eat, friends! Drink, be intoxicated with love! W
5:2  I sleep, but my heart is awake. A sound! My love is knocking! M Open to me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my perfect one. For my head is drenched with dew, my hair with droplets of the night. W
5:3  I have taken off my clothing. How can I put it back on? I have washed my feet. How can I get them dirty?
5:4  My love thrust his hand through the opening, and my feelings were stirred for him.
5:5  I rose to open for my love. My hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt.
5:6  I opened to my love, but my love had turned and gone away. I was crushed that he had left. I sought him, but did not find him. I called him, but he did not answer.
5:7  The guards who go about the city found me. They beat and wounded me; they took my cloak from me-- the guardians of the walls.
5:8  Young women of Jerusalem, I charge you: if you find my love, tell him that I am lovesick. Y
5:9  What makes the one you love better than another, most beautiful of women? What makes him better than another, that you would give us this charge? W
5:10  My love is fit and strong, notable among ten thousand.
5:11  His head is purest gold. His hair is wavy and black as a raven.
5:12  His eyes are like doves beside streams of water, washed in milk and set like jewels.
5:13  His cheeks are like beds of spice, towers of perfume. His lips are lilies, dripping with flowing myrrh.
5:14  His arms are rods of gold set with topaz. His body is an ivory panel covered with sapphires.
5:15  His legs are alabaster pillars set on pedestals of pure gold. His presence is like Lebanon, as majestic as the cedars.
5:16  His mouth is sweetness. He is absolutely desirable. This is my love, and this is my friend, young women of Jerusalem.