The Secret Garden

                                                    She is a garden enclosed

                                                    my sister, my promised bride;

                                                    a garden enclosed,

                                                    a sealed fountain.

                                                    Your shoots form an orchard of

                                                    pomegranate trees,

                                                    the rarest essences are yours;

                                                    nard and saffron,

                                                    calamus and cinnamon,

                                                    with all the incense-bearing trees;

                                                    myrrh and aloes,

                                                    with the subtlest odors.

                                                    Fountain that makes the gardens fertile,

                                                    well of living water,

                                                    streams flowing down from Lebanon.

 

                                                    Song of Songs 4: 12-15