Song of Solomon 2:8

(8) The voice of my beloved.—So here there is no need of the clumsy device of supposing the heroine in a dream. This most exquisite morsel of the whole poem falls quite naturally into its place if we regard it as a sweet recollection of the poet’s, put into the mouth of the object of his affections. “The voice” (Heb., kôl), used to arrest attention = Hark! (Comp. Psalms 29:0) The quick sense of love discerns his approach a long way off. (Compare—

“Before he mounts the hill, I knowHe cometh quickly.”—Tennyson’s Fatima.)