3 “On my bed night after night [I dreamed that] I sought the one
Whom my soul loves;
I sought him but did not find him.^(A)
2 
“I said ‘So I must arise now and go out into the city;
Into the streets and into the squares [places I do not know]
I must seek him whom my soul loves.’
I sought him but I did not find him.
³ 
“The watchmen who go around the city found me,
And I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
⁴ 
“Scarcely had I passed them
When I found him whom my soul loves.
I held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had brought him to my mother’s house,
And into the chamber of her who conceived me.”^(B)