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10 My lover spoke and said to me,
    “·Get [Rise] up, my darling;
    let’s go away, my beautiful one.
11 Look, the winter is past;
    the rains are over and gone [C spring has arrived, the time of love].
12 Blossoms appear through all the land.
    The time has come to sing;
    the cooing of doves is heard in our land.
13 There are young figs ·on [L ripening on] the fig trees,
    and the blossoms on the vines ·smell sweet [L spread their fragrance].
·Get [Rise] up, my darling;
    let’s go away, my beautiful one.”

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10 
“My beloved speaks and says to me,
‘Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away.
11 
‘For behold, the winter is past,
The rain is over and gone.
12 
‘The flowers appear on the earth once again;
The time for singing has come,
And the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
13 
‘The fig tree has budded and ripens her figs,
And the vines are in blossom and give forth their fragrance.
Arise, my love, my fair one,
And come away [to climb the rocky steps of the hillside].’”

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