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In lectulo meo, per noctes
Language: Latin 
1  In lectulo meo, per noctes,
   quæsivi quem diligit anima mea:
   quæsivi illum, et non inveni.
2  Surgam, et circuibo civitatem:
   per vicos et plateas
   quæram quem diligit anima mea:
   quæsivi illum, et non inveni.
3  Invenerunt me vigiles qui custodiunt civitatem:
   Num quem diligit anima mea vidistis?
4  Paululum cum pertransissem eos,
   inveni quem diligit anima mea:
   tenui eum, nec dimittam,
   donec introducam illum in domum matris meæ,
   et in cubiculum genetricis meæ.
5  Adjuro vos, filiæ Jerusalem,
   per capreas cervosque camporum,
   ne suscitetis, neque evigilare faciatis dilectam,
   donec ipsa velit.
6  Quæ est ista quæ ascendit per desertum
   sicut virgula fumi ex aromatibus myrrhæ,
   et thuris, et universi pulveris pigmentarii?
7  En lectulum Salomonis sexaginta fortes ambiunt
   ex fortissimis Israël,
8  omnes tenentes gladios, et ad bella doctissimi:
   uniuscujusque ensis super femur suum
   propter timores nocturnos.
9  Ferculum fecit sibi rex Salomon
   de lignis Libani;
10 columnas ejus fecit argenteas,
   reclinatorium aureum, ascensum purpureum;
   media caritate constravit,
   propter filias Jerusalem.
11 Egredimini et videte, filiæ Sion,
   regem Salomonem in diademate quo coronavit illum mater sua
   in die desponsationis illius,
   et in die lætitiæ cordis ejus.

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Le Roi Salomon
Language: French (Français)  after the Latin 
Qu’est ce là qui monte du désert comme une
colonne de fumée, vapeur d’aromates 
de myrrhe et d’encens, de tous parfums exotiques?
Voici le lit de Salomon, soixantes hommes
vaillants guerriers l’environment, les plus fort d’Israël
Veterans des combats, le glaive au côté
Le roi Salomon s’est fait un trone en cèdre du Liban
Le dossier d’or, le siège de poupre.
Venez filles de Sion contempler Salomon portant
le diadème dont le couronna sa mere au jour
de ses noces de la joie de son coeur.
Hosanna filio David,
Qui venit in nomine Domini.

From verses 6-11.


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