Song of Solomon 3:3-5

New Century Version

³ The watchmen found me as they patrolled the city,
    so I asked, “Have you seen the one I love?”
⁴ As soon as I had left them,
    I found the one I love.
I held him and would not let him go
    until I brought him to my mother’s house,
    to the room where I was born.

⁵ Women of Jerusalem, promise me
    by the gazelles and the deer
not to awaken
    or excite my feelings of love
    until it is ready.