Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away

  

Song of Solomon 2:10-12 RSV

 My beloved speaks and says to me:

 "Arise, my love, my fair one,

and come away;

for lo, the winter is past,

the rain is over and gone.

The flowers appear on the earth,

the time of singing has come,

and the voice of the turtledove

is heard in our land."