Text from Song of Songs 3:1-4
Commissioned and performed by the Adelaide Chamber Singers, directed by Carl Crossin, 2011

in lectulo meo per noctes (On my bed by night)
quaesivi quem diligit anima mea (I sought him whom my soul loves)
quaesivi illum et non inveni (I sought him, but found him not)

surgam et circuibo civitatem (I will rise now and go about the city)
per vicos et plateas (in the streets and in the squares)
quaeram quem diligit anima mea (I will seek him whom my soul loves)
quaesivi illum et non inveni (I sought him, but found him not)

invenerunt me vigiles (The watchmen found me)
qui custodiunt civitatem (as they went about in the city)
num quem dilexit anima mea vidistis (“Have you seen him whom my soul loves?”)

paululum cum pertransissem eos (Scarcely had I passed them)
inveni quem diligit anima mea (when I found him whom my soul loves)
tenui eum nec dimittam (I held him, and would not let him go)
donec introducam illum in domum matris meae (until I had brought him into my mother's house)
et in cubiculum genetricis meae (and into the chamber of her who conceived me)

in lectulo meo per noctes

David John Lang