¹How beautiful are your feet in sandals,

O tnoble daughter!

Your rounded thighs are like ujewels,

the work of va master hand.

²Your navel is a rounded bowl

that never lacks mixed wine.

Your belly is a heap of wheat,

encircled with wlilies.

³xYour two breasts are like two fawns,

twins of a gazelle.

⁴Your yneck is like an ivory tower.

Your zeyes are pools in aHeshbon,

by the gate of Bath-rabbim.

Your nose is like a tower of bLebanon,

which looks toward cDamascus.

⁵Your head crowns you like eCarmel,

and your fflowing locks are like purple;

a king is held captive in the tresses.

⁶gHow beautiful and hpleasant you are,

O loved one, with all your delights!1

⁷Your stature is like a palm tree,

and your breasts are like its clusters.

⁸I say I will climb the palm tree

and lay hold of its fruit.

Oh may your breasts be like iclusters of the vine,

and the scent of your breath like apples,

⁹and your jmouth2 like the best wine.

She

It goes down smoothly for my beloved,

gliding over lips and teeth.3

¹⁰kI am my beloved's,

land his desire is for me.

The Bride Gives Her Love

¹¹mCome, my beloved,

let us go out into the fields

and lodge in the villages;4

¹²let us go out early to the vineyards

nand see whether the vines have budded,

whether othe grape blossoms have opened

and the pomegranates are in bloom.

There I will give you my love.

¹³pThe mandrakes give forth fragrance,

and beside our doors are all choice fruits,

qnew as well as old,

which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.