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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.
My lover is like a gazelle
    or a young deer.
Look at him standing behind our wall,
    staring out the window,
    looking through the lattice.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 2:7 until I am ready Literally, “until it desires.”
  2. Song of Solomon 2:9 lattice A wooden screen over a window.

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