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1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet,
O queenly maiden.
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the work of a skilled craftsman.
2
Your navel is perfectly formed
like a goblet filled with mixed wine.
Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat
bordered with lilies.
3
Your breasts are like two fawns,
twin fawns of a gazelle.
4
Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower.
Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon
overlooking Damascus.
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Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel,
and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty.
The king is held captive by its tresses.
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Oh, how beautiful you are!
How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
7
You are slender like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
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I said, “I will climb the palm tree
and take hold of its fruit.”
May your breasts be like grape clusters,
and the fragrance of your breath like apples.
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May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine,
flowing gently over lips and teeth. 2
10
I am my lover’s,
and he claims me as his own.
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Come, my love, let us go out to the fields
and spend the night among the wildflowers. 3
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Let us get up early and go to the vineyards
to see if the grapevines have budded,
if the blossoms have opened,
and if the pomegranates have bloomed.
There I will give you my love.
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There the mandrakes give off their fragrance,
and the finest fruits are at our door,
new delights as well as old,
which I have saved for you, my lover.