1 Let my kinsman come down into his garden, And eat the fruit of his choice berries. I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spices; I have eaten my bread with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk. Eat, O friends, and drink; Yea, brethren, drink abundantly.10 My kinsman is white and ruddy, Chosen out from myriads.11 His head is as very fine gold, His locks are flowing, black as a raven.12 His eyes are as doves, by the pools of waters, Washed with milk, Sitting by the pools.13 His cheeks are as bowls of spices pouring forth perfumes: His lips are lilies, dropping choice myrrh.14 His hands are as turned gold set with beryl: His belly is an ivory tablet on a sapphire stone.15 His legs are marble pillars set on golden sockets: His form is as Lebanon, choice as the cedars.16 His throat is most sweet, and altogether desirable. This is my kinsman, And this is my companion, O daughters of Jerusalem.2 I sleep, but my heart is awake: The voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, My dove, my perfect one: For my head is filled with dew, And my locks with the drops of the night.3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?4 My kinsman put forth his hand by the hole of the door, And my belly was moved for him.5 I rose up to open to my kinsman; My hands dropped myrrh, My fingers choice myrrh, On the handles of the lock.6 I opened to my kinsman; My kinsman was gone: My soul failed at his speech: I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he answered me not.7 The watchmen that go their rounds in the city found me, They smote me, they wounded me; The keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.8 I have charged you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the powers and the virtues of the field: If ye should find my kinsman, what are ye to say to him? That I am wounded with love.9 What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, O thou beautiful among women? What is thy kinsman more than another kinsman, That thou hast so charged us?