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The Bride's Troubled Dream

(The Shulammite Bride)

¹ "On my bed night after night I dreamed that I sought the one
^(C1)Whom my soul loves;
I ^(C2)sought him but did not find him. ^(VR1)

² "I said 'So I must arise now and go out into the city;
Into the ^(C1)streets and into the squares places I do not know
I must seek him whom my soul loves.'
I sought him but I did not find him.

³ "^(C1)The watchmen who go around the city found me,
And I said, 'Have you seen him whom my soul loves?'

⁴ "Scarcely had I ^(C1)passed them
When I found him whom my soul loves.
I ^(C2)held on to him and would not let him go
Until I had ^(C3)brought him to my mother's house,
And into the chamber of her who conceived me." ^(VR1)

(The Bridegroom)

⁵ "I ^(C1)command that you take an oath, O daughters of Jerusalem,
By the ^(C2)gazelles or by the does of the field,
That you do not rouse nor awaken my love
Until she pleases."

Solomon's Wedding Day

(The Shulammite Bride)

⁶ "^(C1)What is this coming up from the wilderness
Like stately ^(C2)pillars of smoke
Perfumed with ^(C3)myrrh and ^(C4)frankincense,
With all the fragrant powders of the merchant?"

(The Chorus)

⁷ "Behold, it is the couch (^(F1)palanquin) of Solomon;
Sixty mighty men around it,
Of the mighty men of Israel.

⁸ "All of them handle the sword,
All ^(C1)expert in war;
Each man has his ^(C2)sword at his thigh,
Guarding against the ^(C3)terrors of the night.

⁹ "King Solomon has made for himself a palanquin
From the cedar wood of Lebanon.

¹⁰ "He made its posts of silver,
Its back of gold,
Its seat of purple cloth,
The interior lovingly and intricately wrought
By the ^(C1)daughters of Jerusalem.

¹¹ "Go forth, O ^(C1)daughters of Zion,
And gaze on King Solomon wearing the crown
With which his mother Bathsheba has crowned him
On the ^(C2)day of his wedding,
On the day of his gladness of heart."