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Maiden’s Dream: Seeking and Not Finding

I was asleep but[a] my heart was awake.
    A sound! My beloved knocking![b]
“Open to me, my sister, my beloved,
    my dove, my perfect one!
For my head is full of dew,
    my hair drenched from the moist night air.”[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 5:2 Or “and”
  2. Song of Solomon 5:2 Or “The sound of my beloved knocking!”
  3. Song of Solomon 5:2 Literally “my locks with drops of night”