³ The watchmen found me
    as they made their rounds in the city.^(A)
    “Have you seen the one my heart loves?”

⁴ 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,^(A)
    to the room of the one who conceived me.^(B)