The Song of Songs - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 862

I delight in his shade and sit down, And his fruit,-—it is sweet to my taste. He has brought to his bower, And his banner above me is love 3 (She sings.) Refresh me with Hagons, With apples support me, Because I am fainting with love! Let his left hand be under my head, And his right hand be clasped within mine! {Tha Suxzmzxh sleeps, and the Snxmxnoxss says to the Ciioiws,) I entreat you, }erusalem’s daughters, By the deer and gazelles of the field, Arouse not,——disturb not my love, Until it may please him to wake. Scmm 2. (.4 Park Lodge. fha SHEP{»iER1?§ss qt {he window sees her lover in the IO I1 distance, and exclaims to her companions.) Ah! that is the voice of my love, Who comes tripping over the hills ! My lover is like a gazelle, Or a fawn of the groves! The Cuonus of her Companions. Look! he is hiding behind our wall, To the window he peeps! Thro’ the flowers spread over the lattice! Snepnznoess exolaims. My darling addresses and calls I SHEPHERD, hid amongst the rosebushes, sings. Arise my love, my fair, and come to me ! Let me wander, sweet, with you : For see the Winter is past, The rain is over and gone, The flowers appear on the earth, And the Time of the Singing of Birds is come, And the voice of the Turtle is heard in our land! The fig-leaves are tanned by the sun, And the bloom on the vines gives perfume, Arise and come to me, my love! My fair one,—let me come to you! My Dove’s in a cleft of the rock, In a precipice hid l Allow me to list to your coos, For your voice is a pleasure, And to see you delights!

Let us hunt little foxes together, The bad foxes, who spoil our grapes, And our blossoming vines ? 862