<p class="poetry">Look! The winter has passed,p> <p class="poetry">the winter rains are over and gone.p>

<p class="poetry">His cheeks are like garden beds full of balsam trees<n id="1" /> yielding<n id="2" /> perfume.p> <p class="poetry">His lips are like lilies dripping with drops of myrrh.p>

<p class="poetry">I arose to open for my beloved;p> <p class="poetry">my hands dripped with myrrh &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">my fingers flowed with myrrhp> <p class="poetry">on the handles of the lock.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>

<p class="poetry">Scarcely<n id="1" /> had I passed them byp> <p class="poetry">when I found my beloved!p> <p class="poetry">I held onto him<n id="2" /> tightly and would not let him go<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I brought him to my mother&#8217;s house,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">to the bedroom chamber<n id="5" /> of the one who conceived me.p>