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Admiration by the Bridegroom

¹ "How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O ^(C1)prince's daughter!
The curves of your hips are like jewels,
The work of the hands of an artist.

² "Your navel is a round goblet
Which never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is like a heap of wheat
Surrounded with lilies.

³ "Your ^(C1)two breasts are like two fawns,
The twins of a gazelle.

⁴ "Your ^(C1)neck is like a tower of ivory,
Your eyes the sparkling pools of ^(C2)Heshbon
By the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
Which looks toward Damascus.

⁵ "Your head crowns you like Mount ^(C1)Carmel,
And the flowing hair of your head like purple threads;
I, the king, am held captive by your ^(F1)tresses.

⁶ "How ^(C1)beautiful and how delightful you are,
My love, with all your delights!

⁷ "Your stature is like that of a palm tree
And your breasts like its clusters of dates.

⁸ "I said, 'I will climb the palm tree;
I will grasp its branches.
Let your breasts be like clusters of the grapevine,
And the fragrance of your breath like ^(C1)apples,

⁹ And your ^(C1)kisses like the best wine!'"

(The Shulammite Bride)

"It ^(C2)goes down smoothly and sweetly for my beloved,
Gliding gently over his lips while he sleeps.

The Union of Love

¹⁰ "^(C1)I am my beloved's,
And his ^(C2)desire is for me. ^(VR1)

¹¹ "Come, my beloved, let us go out into the country,
Let us spend the night in the villages. ^(VR1)

¹² "Let us go out early to the vineyards;
Let us ^(C1)see whether the vine has budded
And its blossoms have opened,
And whether the pomegranates have flowered.
There I will give you my love.

¹³ "The ^(C1)mandrakes give forth fragrance,
And over our doors are all kinds of ^(C2)choice fruits,
Both new and old,
Which I have saved up for you, my beloved.