Love in the Key of Delight 37

After suggesting that the shepherd lover and she have gotten behind the Fall into Paradise, back into the Garden of Eden as it were (in Song 7:10), the woman now invites the man into the Garden of delights:

7:11 Come, my beloved,
let us go forth into the fields,
and lodge in the villages;
12 let us go out early to the vineyards,
and see whether the vines have budded,
whether the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13 The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and over our doors are all choice fruits,
new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
These are the fruits that grow in the pleasure garden: see 4:13. She is that garden. Or, is she speaking now of an orchard? This, as I read it, is an invitation to love — the young woman summons her shepherd lover to her.
Is she inviting him to her or is she offering an invitation for the two of them to find a place, a sacred place, for love? Let us find us a place she says for “there I will give you my love” (7:12).