Song of Songs, Chapter 4
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Look, you are beautiful, my love; look, you are beautiful;Your eyes are doves behind your veil.Your hair is as a flock of goats,That lie along the side of mount Gilead.
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Your teeth are like a flock [of ewes] that are [newly] shorn,Which have come up from the washing,Of which everyone has twins,And none is bereaved among them.
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Your lips are like a thread of scarlet,And your mouth is comely.Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranateBehind your veil.
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Your neck is like the tower of DavidBuilt for an armory,On which hang a thousand bucklers,All the shields of the mighty men.
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Your two breasts are like two fawnsThat are twins of a roe,Which feed among the lilies.
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Until the day is cool, and the shadows flee away,I will get myself to the mountain of myrrh,And to the hill of frankincense.
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You are entirely beautiful, my love;And there is no spot in you.
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Come with me from Lebanon, [my] bride,With me from Lebanon:Look from the top of Amana,From the top of Senir and Hermon,From the lions' dens,From the mountains of the leopards.
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You have ravished my heart, my sister, [my] bride;You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes,With one chain of your neck.
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How fair is your love, my sister, [my] bride!How much better is your love than wine!And the fragrance of your oils than all manner of spices!
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Your lips, O [my] bride, drop [as] the honeycomb:Honey and milk are under your tongue;And the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.
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A garden shut up is my sister, [my] bride;A spring shut up, a fountain sealed.
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Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits;Henna with spikenard plants,
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Spikenard and saffron,Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense;Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
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[You are] a fountain of gardens,A well of living waters,And flowing streams from Lebanon.
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Awake, O north wind; and come, you south;Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out.Let my beloved come into his garden,And eat his precious fruits.