The songs of the Old and New Testament in meeter by M. Zachary Boyd ...

CHAPTER II.

CHRIST.

I Am the rose of Sharon, and the lilly of the valleyes.

2 As the lilly among thornes, so is my love among the daughters.

I'M Sharons rose, the lilly als that valleyes growes along:

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As lillies among thornes, my love so daughters is among.

The Church.

3 As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

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As th•• apple tree among the trees is of the wood so throng,

So likewise my Beloved is, the sons of men among.

•• I sate down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Under his shadow I sate down with great delight there plac't, And there his fruit which pleasant is was sweet unto my taste.

4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

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Unto the house of banqueting▪ to come he did me move▪ His banner that was over me was altogether love.

5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples; for I am sick of love.

6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace me.

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Me sick of love with flagons stay, with apples me solace:

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Under my head his left hand is, his right me doth embrace.

7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Ieru∣salem, by the Roes, and by the Hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love till he please.

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By Roes, field Hindes, O Salems maids, I charge you that ye cease

••o stir or yet at all awake my love, untill he please.

8 The voice of my beloved! behold, he co∣••eth leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon ••••e hils.

The voice of my Belov'd! behold! he cometh thus anone ••pon the mountains leaping high and skipping hills upon.

9 My beloved is like a roe, or a young hart: hold, he standeth behinde our wall, he looketh ••••th at the windows, shewing himself through ••••e lattesse.

He's like a Roe or Hart that's young, he stands behind our wall, ••t windowes he looks forth, himself he shews through lattesse all.

10 My beloved spake, and said unto me, ••se up my love, my faire one, and come away.

11 For lo, the winter is past, the raine is over ••••d gone.

Then my Belov'd said, Rise my love, away come my fair One:

For lo the winter it is past, the rain is ov'r and gone.

12 The flowers appear on the earth, the time ••he singing of birds is come, and the voice of turtle is heard in our land.

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The flowers upon the earth appear, of singing of the bird The time is come; the Turtles voice within our land is heard.

13 The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my faire one, and come away.

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The fig tree her green figs puts forth, vines with grapes tender they Do sweetly smell; arise my love my fair one come away.

CHRIST.

14 O my dove that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs,

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O thou my dove that art ev'n now in clifts within the rock, Within the secret places of the staires where thou dost lurk.

Let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice, for sweet is thy voice, and thy counte∣nance is comely.

Let thou me see thy countenance, thy voice let thou me hear, For sweet thy voice is, and also thy countenance is clear.

15 Take us the Foxes, the little foxes that spoile the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

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Do ye for us the foxes take, foxes that little be That spoile the vines, for tender grapes our vines have, as ye see.

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16 My beloved is mine, and I am his: he ••eedeth among the lillies.

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My Welbeloved sure is mine, and I am his indeed, Among the lillies smelling sweet he pleasantly doth feed.

17 Vntill the day break, and the shadowes ••lee away: turn my beloved, and be thou like a Roe, or a young Hart, upon the mountains of Bether.

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Untill day break and shads flee hence, turn my belov'd, and be Thou like a Roe, or Hart that's young on Bethers mountains hie.