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“How beautiful are your feet with sandals, O prince’s daughter! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, the work of a cunning workman’s hand.

“Your navel is as a round cup that does not lack liquor. Your belly is as a heap of wheat surrounded with lilies.

“Your two breasts are as two twin fawns of a gazelle.

“Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes are like the fish pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is as the tower of Lebanon that looks toward Damascus.

“Your head upon you is like Carmel, and the hair of your head like purple. The king is tied in the rafters.

“How fair you are, and how pleasant you are, O my love, in pleasures!

“This, your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts like clusters.

“I said, ‘I will go up into the palm tree. I will take hold of her branches.’ Your breasts shall now be like the clusters of the vine, and the savor of your nose like apples,

“and the roof of your mouth like good wine, “which goes straight to my well-beloved and causes the lips of the ancient to speak.

10 “I am my well-beloved’s. And his desire is toward me.

11 “Come, my well-beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us remain in the villages.

12 “Let us get up early to the vines. Let us see if the vine flourishes, whether it has budded the small grapes, or where the pomegranates flourish. There I will give you my love.

13 “The mandrakes have given a smell. And in our gates are all sweet things, new and old. My well-beloved, I have kept them for you.”