Song of Solomon 4:16

Blow upon my garden. — After the description of his beloved’s charms under these figures, the poet, under a companion figure, invokes the “airs of love” to blow upon the garden, that its perfumes may “flow out” for him — that the object of his affections may no longer keep herself reserved and denied to him. Tennyson’s melodious lines are recalled which describe how, when a breeze of morning moves,

“The woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
And the musk of the roses blown.”

Let my beloved... — This should form a separate verse, being the reply made to the appeal in the first part of the verse. The maiden yields to her lover’s suit.