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² Your lips cover me with kisses;
    your love is better than wine.
³ There is a fragrance about you;
    the sound of your name recalls it.
    No woman could keep from loving you.
⁴ Take me with you, and we'll run away;
    be my king and take me to your room.
We will be happy together,
    drink deep, and lose ourselves in love.
    No wonder all women love you!
⁵ Women of Jerusalem, I am dark but^[b] beautiful,
    dark as the desert tents of Kedar,
    but beautiful as the draperies in Solomon's palace.
⁶ Don't look down on me because of my color,
    because the sun has tanned me.
My brothers were angry with me
    and made me work in the vineyard.
    I had no time to care for myself.
⁷ Tell me, my love,
    Where will you lead your flock to graze?
    Where will they rest from the noonday sun?
Why should I need to look for you
    among the flocks of the other shepherds?^[c]

⁸ Don't you know the place, loveliest of women?
Go and follow the flock;
    find pasture for your goats
    near the tents of the shepherds.

⁹ You, my love, excite men
    as a mare excites the stallions of Pharaoh's chariots.
¹⁰ Your hair is beautiful upon your cheeks
    and falls along your neck like jewels.
¹¹ But we will make for you a chain of gold
    with ornaments of silver.

¹² My king was lying on his couch,
    and my perfume filled the air with fragrance.
¹³ My lover has the scent of myrrh
    as he lies upon my breasts.
¹⁴ My lover is like the wild flowers
    that bloom in the vineyards at Engedi.

¹⁵ How beautiful you are, my love;
    how your eyes shine with love!

¹⁶ How handsome you are, my dearest;
    how you delight me!
The green grass will be our bed;
¹⁷     the cedars will be the beams of our house,
    and the cypress trees the ceiling.