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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from the hills of Gilead. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Your teeth are like a flock of sheep just shorn, coming up from the washing. Each has its twin; not one of them is alone. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Your neck is like the tower of David, built with courses of stone; on it hang a thousand shields, all of them shields of warriors. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle that browse among the lilies. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Until the day breaks and the shadows flee, I will go to the mountain of myrrh and to the hill of incense. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7You are altogether beautiful, my darling; there is no flaw in you. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the crest of Amana, from the top of Senir, the summit of Hermon, from the lions' dens and the mountain haunts of leopards. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10How delightful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much more pleasing is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfume more than any spice! |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Your lips drop sweetness as the honeycomb, my bride; milk and honey are under your tongue. The fragrance of your garments is like the fragrance of Lebanon. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You are a garden locked up, my sister, my bride; you are a spring enclosed, a sealed fountain. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates with choice fruits, with henna and nard, |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14nard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree, with myrrh and aloes and all the finest spices. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You are a garden fountain, a well of flowing water streaming down from Lebanon. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Awake, north wind, and come, south wind! Blow on my garden, that its fragrance may spread everywhere. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its choice fruits. |
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