The beloved notes that their beams of cedar and their rafters of fir form their dwelling, establishing a natural architecture where lovers rest together in surroundings of natural beauty and precious materials. Cedar and fir, imported luxury woods, suggest both the permanence and the beauty of the space they create together, while the emphasis on natural materials maintains the poem's integration of erotic love with the created world. The shift from singular pronouns to 'our' and 'us' establishes the lovers as creating a shared domestic space, suggesting that erotic love involves the establishment of household and the mingling of separate lives. This verse theologically positions the lovers' union as creating a kind of Eden, a garden-dwelling where they are together sheltered and sustained by natural abundance.

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