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Module 2: The Nocturnal Search and the Royal Palanquin
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
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The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?
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It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.
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I adjure you, O ye daughters of Yarushalayim, 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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The Royal Appiryon and the Day of Espousals
Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?
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Behold his bed, which is Shalomoh's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Yashar'el.
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They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night.
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King Shalomoh made himself a chariot (Appiryon) of the wood of Labanon.
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He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Yarushalayim.
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Go forth, O ye daughters of Tziyon, and behold king Shalomoh with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.