when ruby heard those parts sung out to her as they were so often let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth she was silenced and she listened intently for the whole cycle to be recited : my beloved thrust his hand through the latch opening my heart began to pound for him i arose to open for my beloved and my hands dripped with myrrh my fingers with flowing myrrh on the handles of the bolt and at rubys stillness , not even taking a breath so as to hear better , her mother would laugh softly and say : ruby child there are more important parts to this song .