Gregory the Great, on Song 3:1

“In my bed by night I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, and found him not.”

“For we seek the beloved in bed when in some little rest of the present life we sigh with longing for our Redeemer. We seek by night, because even if the mind is now awake in him, nevertheless the eye still grows dim.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.