“It urges that the bridegroom flee, because already, although it is of earth, it can follow him in his flight. It says this so that it may be like the young deer that escapes the nets; for it desires also to flee and to fly away above the world.”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — DEATH AS A GOOD 5:18
Original
14Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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In context
12My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
13Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.