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Young Woman

I am the spring crocus blooming on the Sharon Plain,[a]
    the lily of the valley.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:1 Traditionally rendered I am the rose of Sharon. Sharon Plain is a region in the coastal plain of Palestine.

11 Look, the winter is past,
    and the rains are over and gone.
12 The flowers are springing up,
    the season of singing birds[a] has come,
    and the cooing of turtledoves fills the air.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:12 Or the season of pruning vines.

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