| Chapter 3 |
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By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. |
| Sur ma couche, pendant les nuits, J`ai cherché celui que mon coeur aime; Je l`ai cherché, et je ne l`ai point trouvé...
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I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not. |
| Je me lèverai, et je ferai le tour de la ville, Dans les rues et sur les places; Je chercherai celui que mon coeur aime... Je l`ai cherché, et je ne l`ai point trouvé.
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The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth? |
| Les gardes qui font la ronde dans la ville m`ont rencontrée: Avez-vous vu celui que mon coeur aime?
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It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. |
| A peine les avais-je passés, Que j`ai trouvé celui que mon coeur aime; Je l`ai saisi, et je ne l`ai point lâché Jusqu`à ce que je l`aie amené dans la maison de ma mère, Dans la chambre de celle qui m`a conçue. -
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I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please. |
| Je vous en conjure, filles de Jérusalem, Par les gazelles et les biches des champs, Ne réveillez pas, ne réveillez pas l`amour, Avant qu`elle le veuille. -
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Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant? |
| Qui est celle qui monte du désert, Comme des colonnes de fumée, Au milieu des vapeurs de myrrhe et d`encens Et de tous les aromates des marchands? -
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Behold his bed, which is Solomon's; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel. |
| Voici la litière de Salomon, Et autour d`elle soixante vaillants hommes, Des plus vaillants d`Israël.
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They all hold swords, being expert in war: every man hath his sword upon his thigh because of fear in the night. |
| Tous sont armés de l`épée, Sont exercés au combat; Chacun porte l`épée sur sa hanche, En vue des alarmes nocturnes.
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King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon. |
| Le roi Salomon s`est fait une litière De bois du Liban.
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He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem. |
| Il en a fait les colonnes d`argent, Le dossier d`or, Le siège de pourpre; Au milieu est une broderie, oeuvre d`amour Des filles de Jérusalem.
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Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. |
| Sortez, filles de Sion, regardez Le roi Salomon, Avec la couronne dont sa mère l`a couronné Le jour de ses fiançailles, Le jour de la joie de son coeur. -
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