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Pensé: “Me levantaré e iré por la ciudad, por las calles y las plazas,
buscando al que ama mi alma”. Lo busqué, pero no lo hallé.
Me encontré con los guardias que rondan la ciudad y les pregunté: “¿Han visto al que ama mi alma?”.
Tan pronto como pasé de allí, hallé al que ama mi alma.
Me prendí de él y no lo solté
hasta que lo traje a la casa de mi madre, a la habitación de la que me concibió.

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I will get up now and go about the city,
    through its streets and squares;
I will search for the one my heart loves.
    So I looked for him but did not find him.
The watchmen found me
    as they made their rounds in the city.(A)
    “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”
Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found the one my heart loves.
I held him and would not let him go
    till I had brought him to my mother’s house,(B)
    to the room of the one who conceived me.(C)

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