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Song of Solomon opens with “Let Him Kiss Me” and carries its history toward “Love Is Strong as Death.” A woman speaks first and speaks most, which is unusual for a book this old. The poems move back out to the country, to the villages and the vineyards and the mandrakes.
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Song of Solomon 1–2
A woman speaks first and speaks most, which is unusual for a book this old. She is dark from working her brothers’ vineyards and has not kept her own, and she is not apologising for it. The two trade comparisons that are too big for the occasion on purpose, and twice she warns the daughters of Jerusalem not to stir up love before it is ready.
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Song of Solomon 3–4
She dreams she has lost him, gets up and goes through the city looking, and when she finds him she will not let go. Then a wedding procession comes up out of the wilderness like a column of smoke, with sixty armed men around it because of fear in the night. The groom describes his bride from head to foot and calls her a garden shut up, a spring sealed.
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Song of Solomon 5–6
He knocks at night and she is slow to get up, and by the time she opens the door he has gone. She goes out looking again and this time the watchmen beat her and take her veil. Asked what makes her beloved different from any other man, she answers with a description that runs the length of a passage and ends plainly: this is my beloved, and this is my friend.
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Song of Solomon 7–8
The poems move back out to the country, to the villages and the vineyards and the mandrakes. She wishes he were her brother so she could kiss him in the street and nobody would say a word. Then the sentence the whole book has been walking toward: love is strong as death, many waters cannot quench it, and a man who offered everything he owned for it would only be laughed at.
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Song of Solomon 3:1-11
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