^3 (A)The watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
^4 (B)Hardly had I ^[a]left them
When I found him whom my soul loves;
I ^(C)held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had ^(D)brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the room of her who conceived me.”

⁷ The ^(A)watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guards of the walls took my shawl away from me.