Song of Solomon 3:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

² ‘I will rise now and go about the city,
    in the streets and in the squares;
I will seek him whom my soul loves.’
    I sought him, but found him not.
³ The sentinels found me,
    as they went about in the city.
‘Have you seen him whom my soul loves?’
⁴ Scarcely had I passed them,
    when I found him whom my soul loves.
I held him, and would not let him go
    until I brought him into my mother’s house,
    and into the chamber of her that conceived me.