<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside;p> <p class="poetry">let us spend the night in the villages.p>

<p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Lover to His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">If you do not know, O most beautiful of women,p> <p class="poetry">simply follow the tracks of my flock,p> <p class="poetry">and pasture your little lambsp> <p class="poetry">beside the tents of the shepherds.p>

<p class="poetry">Come out, O maidens of Zion,p> <p class="poetry">and gaze upon King Solomon!p> <p class="poetry">He is wearing the crown with which his mother crowned himp> <p class="poetry">on his wedding day,p> <p class="poetry">on the most joyous day of his life!<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">I opened for my beloved,p> <p class="poetry">but my lover had already turned<n id="1" /> and gone away.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">I fell into despair<n id="3" /> when he departed.<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">I looked for him but did not find him;p> <p class="poetry">I called him but he did not answer me.p>