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* How beautiful are your feet in sandals , O prince 's daughter ! The curves of your thighs are like jewels , The work of the hands of a skillful workman . * Your navel is a rounded goblet ; It lacks no blended beverage . Your waist is a heap of wheat Set about with lilies . * Your two breasts are like two fawns , Twins of a gazelle . * Your neck is like an ivory tower , Your eyes like the pools in Heshbon By the gate of Bath Rabbim . Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon Which looks toward Damascus . * Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel , And the hair of your head is like purple ; A king is held captive by your tresses . * How fair and how pleasant you are , O love , with your delights ! * This stature of yours is like a palm tree , And your breasts like its clusters . * I said , "I will go up to the palm tree , I will take hold of its branches ." Let now your breasts be like clusters of the vine , The fragrance of your breath like apples , * And the roof of your mouth like the best wine . The wine goes down smoothly for my beloved , Moving gently the lips of sleepers . * I am my beloved 's , And his desire is toward me . * Come , my beloved , Let us go forth to the field ; Let us lodge in the villages . * Let us get up early to the vineyards ; Let us see if the vine has budded , Whether the grape blossoms are open , And the pomegranates are in bloom . There I will give you my love . * The mandrakes give off a fragrance , And at our gates are pleasant fruits , All manner , new and old , Which I have laid up for you , my beloved . * Oh , that you were like my brother , Who nursed at my mother 's breasts ! If I should find you outside , I would kiss you ; I would not be despised . * I would lead you and bring you Into the house of my mother , She who used to instruct me . I would cause you to drink of spiced wine , Of the juice of my pomegranate . * His left hand is under my head , And his right hand embraces me . * I charge you , O daughters of Jerusalem , Do not stir up nor awaken love Until it pleases . * Who is this coming up from the wilderness , Leaning upon her beloved ? I awakened you under the apple tree . There your mother brought you forth ; There she who bore you brought you forth . * Set me as a seal upon your heart , As a seal upon your arm ; For love is as strong as death , Jealousy as cruel as the grave ; Its flames are flames of fire , A most vehement flame . * Many waters cannot quench love , Nor can the floods drown it . If a man would give for love All the wealth of his house , It would be utterly despised . * We have a little sister , And she has no breasts . What shall we do for our sister In the day when she is spoken for ? * If she is a wall , We will build upon her A battlement of silver ; And if she is a door , We will enclose her With boards of cedar . * I am a wall , And my breasts like towers ; Then I became in his eyes As one who found peace . * Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon ; He leased the vineyard to keepers ; Everyone was to bring for its fruit A thousand silver coins . * My own vineyard is before me . You , O Solomon , may have a thousand , And those who tend its fruit two hundred . * You who dwell in the gardens , The companions listen for your voice -- Let me hear it ! * Make haste , my beloved , And be like a gazelle Or a young stag On the mountains of spices .

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