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1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. | 1How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. |
2Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. | 2Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies. |
3Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. | 3Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle. |
4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus. | 4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus. |
5Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. | 5Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses. |
6How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! | 6How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! |
7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. | 7Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters. |
8I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, | 8I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples, |
9and your mouth like the best wine. She It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. | 9and your mouth like the best wine. She It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. |
10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. | 10I am my beloved’s, and his desire is for me. |
11Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; | 11Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; |
12let 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. | 12let 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. |
13The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. | 13The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved. |
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