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How beautiful are your feet in sandals, O 1noble daughter! Your rounded thighs are like 2jewels, the work of 3a master hand.
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Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with 4lilies.
35Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
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Your 6neck is like an ivory tower. Your 7eyes are pools in 8Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of 9Lebanon, which looks toward 10Damascus.
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Your head crowns you like 11Carmel, and your 12flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
613How beautiful and 14pleasant you are, O loved one, with all your delights! a
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Your stature is like a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
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I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like 15clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
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and your 16mouthb like the best wine. It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth. c
1119Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages; d
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let us go out early to the vineyards 20and see whether the vines have budded, whether 21the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
1322The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, 23new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.