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[1] How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.

[2] Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.

[3] Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.

[4] Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, which looks toward Damascus.

[5] Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.

[6] How beautiful and pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights!

[7] Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.

[8] I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,

[9] and your mouth like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.

[10] I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.

[11] Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;

[12] let us go out early to the vineyards and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.

[13] The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.

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