Song Of Songs Fragments

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Soprano, Clarinet in Bb, Piano — My beloved answered and said to me:Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.For lo the winter is past.The rains are over and gone.The flowers appear on the earth,The time of singing has come,And the voice of the turtle dove is heard in our land.The fig tree sweetens her green figsAnd the vines are in blossom, giving their fragrance.Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away!I adjure you, O daughter of Jerusalem, by the gazellesAnd by the hinds of the field,Lest you stir up or arouse my love, until it please…I sleep, but my heart is awake.Hark, my beloved knocks: “Open to me sister,my love, my dove, my perfect one.For my head is drenched with dew,My locks with drops of the night.By night upon my couchI sought him whom I love;I sought him, but I found him not.“I will rise now, and go about the city, through thestreets and through the broad ways,Seeking my true love.”i sought him, but I found him not.The watchmen who go about the cityFound me.“Have you seen my true love?”Scarcely had I passed them,When I foundMy true love.Set me a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm.For love is strong as death,Jealousy is cruel as the grave.Its flashes are flashes of fire, a blazing flame of the Lord.Many waters cannot quench love,Neither can rivers sweep it away.