<p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Make haste, my beloved!p> <p class="poetry">Be like a gazelle or a young stagp> <p class="bodytext">on the mountains of spices.p>

<p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to the Maidens:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">I adjure you,<n id="1" /> O maidens of Jerusalem,p> <p class="poetry">by the gazelles and by the young does<n id="2" /> of the open fields:<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Do not awaken or arouse<n id="4" /> love<n id="5" /> until it pleases!<n id="6" />p>

<p class="poetry">My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Look! There he stands behind our wall,p> <p class="poetry">gazing through the window,p> <p class="poetry">peering through the lattice.p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Until the dawn arrives<n id="1" /> and the shadows flee,p> <p class="poetry">turn,<n id="2" /> my beloved &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">be like a gazelle or a young stagp> <p class="poetry">on the mountain gorges.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to the Maidens:i>b>p><n id="1" /><p class="poetry">I admonish you, O maidens of Jerusalem,p> <p class="poetry">by the gazelles and by the young does of the open fields:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Do not awake or arouse love until it pleases!&#8221;p>