Song of Solomon 3:3 ASV

¹  By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

²  `I said', 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.

³  The watchmen that go about the city found me; `To whom I said', Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

⁴  It was but a little that I passed from them, When 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.

⁵  I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, By the roes, or by the hinds of the field, That ye stir not up, nor awake `my' love, Until he please.