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Clanking Chains		06-04-23-A.CC02-598 /

Review: Song of Solomon, Act I: Solomon Recruits the Shulammite; She Remains Loyal to the Shepherd: His Proposal, Their Betrothal, & Attempted Elopement

Song of Solomon, Act I:
Song of Solomon [SOS] 1:1 -	 hm)žýv=l rv#a&  <yr!yV!h^ ryv Shir ha-shirim ’asher li-Sh^elomoh: The Song of Songs which is Solomon’s.
	Scene: The North of Israel
shulammite woman [SW], daughters of jerusalem [DJ], king solomon [KS]
Solomon’s virgins, the Daughters of Jerusalem, are sent to recruit the Shulammite into the king’s harem.  She returns with them to Solomon’s tent where he attempts to influence the Shulammite to join his harem with pick-up lines.  She resists with the assistance of esprit-de-corps love in her soul for her Shepherd Lover.
SOS 1:2 –
SW  	“May my Shepherd kiss me with the kisses of his mouth!”
DJ  		“For your love is better than wine.
1:3 –
DJ 	“Because of the savor of your good ointments the virtues of your integrity, humility, and honor are as choice ointments poured forth, therefore, we the virgins love your character.”  
1:4 –
SW 		“Rescue me!”
 	DJ  		“We will quickly run after you.” 
SW 	“The king has brought me into the secret chamber of his tent.”
DJ 	“We will rejoice in you and be glad, we will remember your love more than wine.  The upright love you.”
1:5-	
SW 	“My skin is burned black by working in the sun.”
DJ		“But beautiful!”
SW	“O Daughters of Jerusalem, black like the goat-hair tents of Kedar [the son of Ishmael and alleged patriarch of Mohammad].”
DJ  	“No, like the white draperies of Solomon’s tent.”
1:6 –
SW  	“Do not stare at me because I am dark, for the sun has burned my skin.  My brothers were burning with anger toward me; they made me keeper of the vineyards, but I have not taken care of my own vineyard (my personal hygiene).
1:7 –
SW  	“Tell me, O you whom my soul loves, where do you pasture your flock, where do you make it lie down at noon?  For why should I be like one who veils herself as a camp follower beside the flocks of your companions?”
1:8 –
DJ  	“If you yourself do not know, most beautiful among women, go forth on the trail of the flock and pasture your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.”
1:9 –
KS 	Pick-Up Line #1: “To me, my love, you are like a mare among Pharaoh’s chariots. 
	1:10 -
KS 	Pick-Up Line #2: “Your cheek bones are a beautiful set of orderly rows.  Pick-Up Line #3: Your neck complements your facial symmetry as would strings of jewels.”
1:11 –
DJ  	“We will make for you a wedding dress with orderly rows of gold with beads of silver.”
1:12 –
SW 	“While King Solomon was at his table, my perfume gave forth its fragrance of memories.
1:13 –
SW  	“My beloved is to me a pouch of myrrh which lies all night between my breasts. 
1:14 –
SW  	“My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi \en‑ged' ī\.”
1:15 –
KS	Pick-Up Line #4: “How beautiful you are my love, how beautiful you are.  Your eyes are like doves.”
1:16 –
SW  	“How handsome you are, my beloved.  How delightful you are.  Indeed, the timber for our bed still grows green in the forest.
1:17 –
SW  	“The beams of our house are cedars, our rafters, cypresses.
SOS 2:1 –
SW  	“I am the rose of Sharon, the lily of the valleys.”
2:2 –
KS 	Pick-Up Line #5: “Like a lily among the thorns, so is my love among the virgins.”
2:3 –		(The Shulammite’s aria.)
SW  	“Like an apple tree among the trees of the grove, so is my beloved among the young men.  In his shade I took great delight and sat down, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
2:4 –
SW  	“He brought me to the banquet house and proposed, and planted his aquila, his standard of love, in my soul.
2:5 –
SW  	“Sustain me with raisin cakes, refresh me with apples, because I am lovesick.
2:6 –
SW  	“May his left hand be under my head and may his right hand stimulate me.
2:7 –
SW  	“I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you do not arouse or awaken my love until she pleases.
2:8 –
SW  	“Listen!  My beloved!  Behold, he is coming, climbing on the mountains, leaping on the hills!
2:9 –
SW  	“My beloved is like a gazelle or a young hart.  Behold, he is standing behind our wall, he is looking through the windows, he is peering through the lattice.
2:10 -	
SW 		“My beloved responded and said to me,
SL  	“‘Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along.
2:11 –
SL 	‘For behold, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
2:12 –
SL  	‘The flowers have already appeared in the land; the time has arrived for pruning the vines, and the voice of the turtledove has been heard in our land.
2:13 –
SL  	‘The fig tree has ripened its figs, and the vines in blossom have given forth their fragrance.  Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along!’
2:14 -	
SW  	“O my dove, in the private place of the rock stairwell, in the secrecy of the staircase, let me take a good look at you, let me hear your voice.  Your voice is pleasingly resonant and you are handsome.
2:15 –
SB1&2  	“‘Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that are ruining the vineyards, while our vineyards are in blossom.’
2:16 –
SW 	“My beloved is mine, and I am his; he pastures his flock among the lilies of Sharon.
2:17 –
SW  	“Until the cool of the day when the shadows flee away, turn—hurry to me, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of Bether \bē' ther\.
SOS 3:1 –
SW  	“On my bed night after night I sought him whom my soul loves; I sought him but did not find him.
3:2 –
SW  	“‘I must arise now and go about the city’s streets and squares.  I must seek him whom my soul loves.’  I sought him but I did not find him.
3:3 –
SW  	“The policemen who patrol the city found me, and I said, ‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
3:4 –
SW	“Scarcely had I left the officers when I found him whom my soul loves.  I held him and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s estate, and into her private quarters where she conceived me to seek permission for our betrothal.
3:5 –
SW	“I adjure you, O Daughters of Jerusalem, by the gazelles or by the hinds of the field, that you will not arouse or awaken my love until she pleases.”

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