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My lover’s left arm is under my head,
    and his right arm holds me.

Women of Jerusalem, promise me by the gazelles and wild deer,
    don’t awaken love,
    don’t arouse love, until I am ready.[a]

She Speaks Again

I hear my lover’s voice.
    Here it comes, jumping over the mountains,
    skipping over the hills.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”

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