I will rise now and go about the city,
    in (A)the streets and in the squares;
I will seek (B)him whom my soul loves.
    I sought him, but found him not.
(C)The watchmen found me
    as they went about in the city.
“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”
Scarcely had I passed them
    when I found (D)him whom my soul loves.
I (E)held him, and would not let him go
    until I had (F)brought him into my mother's house,
    and into the chamber of (G)her who conceived me.

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