| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 757 |
| QUOTATION: | My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, 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 the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land; |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Bible: Hebrew The Song of Solomon (l. II, 10–12). . .
Oxford Book of Verse in English Translation, The. Charles Tomlinson, ed. (1980) Oxford University Press. |
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