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Song of Songs 3:5
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you
from The Bride’s Dream, Song of Songs 3:1-5
What it says

She adjures the daughters of Jerusalem not to awaken love until it pleases.

What it is doing

This verse repeats the poem's caution to honor love's proper season.

In context

1On my bed at night 2I will arise now and go about the city, 3I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: 4I had just passed them when I found the one I love. 5O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you