Lone Apple Tree

Let me be as the lone apple tree Among the trees of the forest That you found and sat down under. With great delight, You sat in its shadow; For a taste of comfort, You ate its sweet fruit Until you were strengthened Because you were faint with desire, But I am faint with love for you. So, take me now to your lone apple tree, Peculiar among all other trees, And with great joy under its shadow, Let us sit and recline And there awaken love, As you raise me up; Refresh yourself For when I am roused, You will be stayed, strengthened With words fitly spoken; Keep me as the apple of your eye.