The Speaker:1 Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like2 a fragrant billow3 of myrrh and frankincense,4 every kind of fragrant powder5 of the traveling merchants?6
The Maidens about His Beloved: Who is this coming up from the desert, leaning on her beloved? The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you;1 there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.2