Song of Songs Chapter 2    

¹I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
 

²As a lily among the bramble, so is my darling among the young women.
 

³As the apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my lover among the young men. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
  ⁴He brought me to the house of wine, and his banner toward me is love.
  ⁵Strengthen me with raisins, refresh me with apples, for I am faint from love.
  ⁶His left hand is under my head, and his right hand embraces me.
  ⁷I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the does of the field, that you not stir up nor awaken love until it so desires.
  ⁸Listen! My lover! Behold, he comes, leaping across the mountains, bounding across the hills.
  ⁹My lover is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, he stands behind our wall! He looks in through the windows. He peers through the lattice.
  ¹⁰My lover spoke and said to me,

“Rise up, my darling, my beautiful one, and come away.
  ¹¹For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
  ¹²The flowers appear on the earth. The time of the singing has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.
  ¹³The fig tree has put forth her green figs. The vines are in blossom. They give forth their fragrance. Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come away.”
  ¹⁴My dove in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountainside, let me see your face. Let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet and your face is lovely.
  ¹⁵Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards, for our vineyards are in bloom.
 

¹⁶My beloved is mine, and I am his. He grazes among the lilies.
  ¹⁷Until the day awakes and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the cleft mountains.