Song Of Solomon 3:1-6

On my bed by night

I sought him whom my soul loves;

I sought him, but found him not.

2

I will rise 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 found him not.

3

The watchmen found me

as they went about in the city.

“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”

4

Scarcely had I passed 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,

and into the chamber of her who conceived me.

5

I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,

by the gazelles or the does of the field,

that you not stir up or awaken love

until it pleases.