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His left hand is under my head and with his right hand he embraces me. O girls of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and deer in the park, that you do not awaken my lover.[a] Let him sleep!”

The Girl: “Ah, I hear him—my beloved! Here he comes, leaping upon the mountains and bounding over the hills.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 do not awaken my lover, literally, “stir not up nor awaken love until it pleases.”

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