{"id":2082,"date":"2007-04-17T02:10:55","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/04\/love-in-the-key-of-delight-12.html"},"modified":"2007-04-17T02:10:55","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T02:10:55","slug":"love-in-the-key-of-delight-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/04\/love-in-the-key-of-delight-12.html","title":{"rendered":"Love in the Key of Delight 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman, either in conjuring up her lover in her mind or reporting of a previous encounter, now recalls what her lover said through the lattice. His words are basically these: “Let’s escape into the flowery areas or let’s find ourselves a cave.”
\nWhat do I most like here? The grandeur of his love-language. Here’s a man who woos a woman, and he woos with delightful images — and this language works (she’s the one reporting it!) because he loves her, she loves him, and they trust one another — and delight in one another’s presence and bodies.
\nFirst, he praises her as “my love” and “my fair one.” And asks her to escape with him.
\n10 \tMy beloved speaks and says to me:
\n\u201cArise, my love, my fair one,
\nand come away;
\nWhy now? He begins his seduction with this: the season is perfect. No more winter rains — the flowers are in bloom; singers are singing; the turtledove’s gentle cooing echoes throughout the land. Spring, ah yes, is the time for love. All the senses are ramped up: smell, sound, and sight. He wants her to awaken to love as has nature.
\n11 \tfor now the winter is past, [mid-April]
\nthe rain is over and gone.
\n12 \tThe flowers appear on the earth; [May-June]
\nthe time of singing has come,
\nand the voice of the turtledove
\nis heard in our land.
\nThe seasonal theme continues with the motif of fertility in fruit, blooms, and fragrance.
\n13 \tThe fig tree puts forth its figs,
\nand the vines are in blossom;
\nthey give forth fragrance.
\nNow that he’s painted in poetry the love-dance all around them, he requests once more that she come away with him.
\nArise, my love, my fair one,
\nand come away.
\nNow he speaks of seclusion rather than springtime:
\n14 \tO my dove, in the clefts of the rock,
\nin the covert of the cliff,
\nAnd now he turns to face her and his fullest disclosure of love emerges from his heart and mouth:
\nlet me see your face<\/em>,
\nlet me hear your voice<\/strong>;
\nfor your voice<\/strong> is sweet,
\nand your face<\/em> is lovely.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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