“The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;”
The lover continues that fig trees put forth their figs and vines in blossom spread their fragrance, establishing botanical abundance as the context for the lovers' union and suggesting that erotic love flourishes when creation itself is fertile and productive. The sensory richness—visual beauty of figs, olfactory pleasure of blossoms—establishes that the lovers' passion is integrated with the sensory abundance of the natural world. The spread of fragrance suggests that the beloved's own aromatic presence participates in this broader flowering of creation, establishing her as a natural feature rather than an artifact. This verse theologically suggests that erotic love is woven into the fabric of creation's fertility and abundance, and that the lovers participate in the same generative power that animates the natural world.
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