Where has your beloved gone, O you fairest among women? where has your beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with you.
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Richard Challoner
AD 1781
My beloved is gone down into his garden: Christ, pleased with the good works of his holy and devout servants labouring in his garden, is always present with them: but the words is gone down, are to be understood, that after trying his Church by permitting persecution, he comes to her assistance and she rejoices at his coming.