(A)The watchmen found me
    as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found (B)him whom my soul loves.
I (C)held him, and would not let him go
    until I had (D)brought him into my mother's house,
    and into the chamber of (E)her who conceived me.
(F)I adjure you, (G)O daughters of Jerusalem,
    (H)by the gazelles or the does of the field,
that you not stir up or awaken love
    until it pleases.

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