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Mutual Delight in Each Other

(The Chorus)

¹ "^(C1)Where has your beloved gone,
O ^(C2)most beautiful among women?
Where is your beloved hiding himself,
That we may seek him with you?"

(The Shulammite Bride)

² "My beloved has gone down to his ^(C1)garden,
To the ^(C2)beds of balsam,
To ^(C3)feed his flock in the gardens
And gather ^(C4)lilies.

³ "^(C1)I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine,
He who ^(C2)feeds his flock among the lilies."

(The Bridegroom)

⁴ "^(C1)You are as beautiful as ^(F1)(C2)Tirzah, my darling,
As ^(C3)lovely as ^(C4)Jerusalem,
As ^(C5)majestic as an army with banners!

⁵ "Turn your flashing eyes away from me,
For they have confused and overcome me;
^(C1)Your hair is like the shimmering black fleece of a flock of Arabian goats
That have descended from Mount Gilead.

⁶ "^(C1)Your ^(C1)teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has lost her young.

⁷ "^(C1)Your temples are like a slice of the pomegranate
Behind your veil.

⁸ "There are sixty ^(C1)queens and eighty ^(F1)concubines,
And ^(C2)maidens without number;

⁹ But ^(C1)my dove, my perfect one, stands alone above them all;
She is her mother's only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who bore her.
The ^(C2)maidens saw her and called her blessed and happy,
The ^(C3)queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying, ^(VR1)

¹⁰ 'Who is this that looks down like the dawn,
Fair and beautiful as the full ^(C1)moon,
Clear and pure ^(C2)as the sun,
As ^(C3)majestic as an army with banners?'

¹¹ "I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the flowers of the valley,
To see whether the ^(C1)grapevine had budded
And the ^(C2)pomegranates were in flower.

¹² "Before I was aware of what was happening, my desire had brought me
Into the area of the princes of my people the king's retinue."

(The Chorus)

¹³ "Return, return, O Shulammite;
Return, return, that we may gaze at you."

(The Bridegroom)

"Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
As at the ^(C1)dance of the ^(C2)two armies?