Charles Spurgeon Commentary Song Of Solomon 1:6-7

"Look not upon me, because I am swarthy, Because the sun hath scorched me. My mother`s sons were incensed against me; They made me keeper of the vineyards; [But] mine own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, Where thou feedest [thy flock], Where thou makest [it] to rest at noon: For why should I be as one that is veiled Beside the flocks of thy companions?" — Song Of Solomon 1:6-7 (ASV)

His left hand is under my head, and his right hand does embrace me.

I charge you, O you daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field: Those lovely but timid creatures that are so easily scared away.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

A few verses of the next chapter.

Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards, but mine own vineyards have I not kept. Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, –

Still is there that same craving for nearness to The Beloved.

Since we love Christ, we desire to be with him, we cannot bear his absence: Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, –