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¹ If you were a baby, like my little brother nursing at his mother's breasts,
    and if I found you outside,
I could kiss you,
    and no one would say it was wrong.
² I would lead you into my mother's house,
    to the room of she who taught me.
I would give you spiced wine
    squeezed from my pomegranate.

³ His left arm is under my head,
    and his right hand holds me.

⁴ Women of Jerusalem, promise me,
    don't awaken love,
    don't arouse love, until I am ready.^[a]

⁵ Who is this woman
    coming from the desert, leaning on her lover?

I woke you under the apple tree,
    where your mother gave birth to you,
    where you were born.
⁶ Keep me near you like a seal you wear over your heart,
    like a signet ring you wear on your hand.
Love is as strong as death.
    Passion is as strong as the grave.^[b]
Its sparks become a flame,
    and it grows to become a great fire^[c]!
⁷ A flood cannot put out love.
    Rivers cannot drown love.
Would people despise a man for giving
    everything he owns for love?

⁸ We have a little sister,
    and her breasts are not yet grown.
What should we do for our sister
    when a man comes asking to marry her?

⁹ If she were a wall,
    we would put silver trim^[d] around her.
If she were a door,
    we would put a cedar board around her.

¹⁰ I am a wall,
    and my breasts are my towers.
    And he is satisfied with me!^[e]

¹¹ Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon.
    He put men in charge of the vineyard.
Each man brought in grapes
    worth 1000 shekels^[f] of silver.

¹² Solomon, you can keep your 1000 shekels.
    Give 200 shekels to each man for the grapes he brought.
    But I will keep my own vineyard.

¹³ There you are, sitting in the garden.
    Friends are listening to your voice.
    Let me hear it too!

¹⁴ Hurry, my lover!
    Be like a gazelle or a young deer on the mountains of spice.