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I said, ‘I have taken off my day clothes.
    I do not want to dress myself again.
I have washed my feet.
    I do not want them to get dirty again.’

My lover pushed his hand through the hole in the door.
    My heart began to beat faster because he was near.
I got up to open the door for my lover.
    My hands were wet with myrrh.
Myrrh dropped from my fingers
    onto the handle of the door.

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