Song of Songs: Spring Poem #1

vox delecti mei! ecce! iste venit,

The voice of my beloved! Behold! he comes,

saliens in montibus, transiliens colles,

leaping on the mountains, leaping over the hills

similis est dilectus meus capreae

my beloved is similar to a gazelle

hinnuloque cervorum.

and a young buck of the deer.

en! ipse stat post parietem nostrum

look! he himself stands behind our wall

respiciens per fenestras

looking back through the windows

prospiciens per cancellos

looking forward through the lattices

en! dilectus meus loquitur mihi:

look! my beloved is speaking to me:

“surge! propera, amica mea, et veni!

Rise! Hurry, my beloved, and come!

iam enim hiems transitt;

for winter has passed already;

imber abiit et recessit

the rain has gone away and receded

flores apparuerunt in terra nostra

the flowers have appeared on our land

tempus putationis advenit

the time for pruning has arrived

vox turturis audita est in terra nostra

the voice of the turtle doves has been heard on our land.

ficus protulit grossos suos

the fig tree bears its figs.

vineae florentes dederunt odorem suum.

the flowering vineyards have given forth their scent.

surge, amica mea, speciosa mea, et veni

Rise, my beloved, my beautiful, and come!

columba mea, in foraminibus petrae,

my dove, in the hollow rock

in caverna maceriae,

in the hollow of a garden wall

ostende mihi faciem tuam!

show your face to me!

sonet vox tua in auribus meis!

Let your voice sound in my ears!

vox enim tua [est] dulcis et facies tua decora!”

Your voice is sweet and your face is beautiful!”

capite nobis vulpes parvulas

capture for us the little foxes

quae demoliuntur vineas

who are destroying the vineyards

nam vinea nostra floruit

for our vineyard has flowered.

dilectus meus [est] mihi, et ego [sum] illi

my beloves is to me, and I to him,

qui pascitur inter lilia,

who pastures among the lilies,

donec aspiret dies et inclinentur umbrae.

until the evening breezes arise and the shadows grow long.

revertere! similis esto dilecte mi, capreae,

come back! Be similar, my beloved, to a gazelle,

hinnuloque cervorum super montes Bether

or a young deer buck on the mountains of Bether.