Song of Solomon 2:3-12

³As an apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. Under its shadow I delighted to sit, and its fruit was sweet to my taste.

⁴He hath brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me is love.

⁵'Stay ye me with dainties, refresh me with apples; for I am love-sick.'

⁶Let his left hand be under my head, and his right hand embrace me.

⁷'I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles, and by the hinds of the field, that ye awaken not, nor stir up love, until it please.'

⁸Hark! my beloved! behold, he cometh, leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

⁹My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart; behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh in through the windows, he peereth through the lattice.

¹⁰My beloved spoke, and said unto me: 'Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

¹¹For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

¹²The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;