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I will get up now and roam around the city,
    in the streets, and in the squares.
    I will look for the one I love.
    I looked for him but did not find him.
The watchmen making their rounds in the city found me.
    I asked, “Have you seen the one I love?”
I had just left them when I found the one I love.
    I held on to him and would not let him go
        until I had brought him into my mother’s house,
            into the bedroom of the one who conceived me.

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I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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