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"How beautiful are your feet in sandals, Prince's daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.

How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

"Your navel is like a round goblet That never lacks mixed wine; Your belly is like a heap of wheat, Surrounded with lilies.

Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.

"Your two breasts are like two fawns, Twins of a gazelle.

Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.

"Your neck is like a tower of ivory, 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.

Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.

"Your head crowns you like Carmel, And the flowing hair of your head is like purple threads; The king is captivated by your tresses.

Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

"How beautiful and how delightful you are, My love, with all your delights!

How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

"Your stature is like a palm tree, And your breasts are like its clusters.

This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.

"I said, 'I will climb the palm tree, I will grasp its fruit stalks.' Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of your breath like apples,

I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;

And your mouth like the best wine!" The Bride "It goes down smoothly for my beloved, Flowing gently through the lips of those who are asleep.

And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

"I am my beloved's, And his desire is for me.

I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

"Come, my beloved, let's go out to the country, Let's spend the night in the villages.

Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

"Let's rise early and go to the vineyards; Let's see whether the vine has grown And its buds have opened, And whether the pomegranates have bloomed. There I will give you my love.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

"The mandrakes have given forth fragrance; And over our doors are all delicious fruits, New as well as old, Which I have saved for you, my beloved.

The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.