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¹ Most beautiful of women,
    where has your lover gone?
Tell us which way your lover went,
    so that we can help you find him.

² My lover has gone to his garden,
    where the balsam trees grow.
He is feeding his flock in the garden
    and gathering lilies.
³ My lover is mine, and I am his;
    he feeds his flock among the lilies.

⁴ My love, you are as beautiful as Jerusalem,
    as lovely as the city of Tirzah,
    as breathtaking as these great cities.^[a]
5 Turn your eyes away from me;
    they are holding me captive.
Your hair dances like a flock of goats
    bounding down the hills of Gilead.
⁶ Your teeth are as white as a flock of sheep
    that have just been washed.
Not one of them is missing;
    they are all perfectly matched.
⁷ Your cheeks glow behind your veil.
⁸ Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines,
    young women without number!
⁹ But I love only one,
    and she is as lovely as a dove.
She is her mother's only daughter,
    her mother's favorite child.
All women look at her and praise her;
    queens and concubines sing her praises.

¹⁰ Who is this whose glance is like the dawn?
She is beautiful and bright,
    as dazzling as the sun or the moon.^[b]
11 I have come down among the almond trees
    to see the young plants in the valley,
    to see the new leaves on the vines
    and the blossoms on the pomegranate trees.
¹² I am trembling; you have made me as eager for love
    as a chariot driver is for battle.^[c]

¹³ Dance, dance,^[d] girl of Shulam.
Let us watch you as you dance.

Why do you want to watch me
    as I dance between the rows of onlookers?