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¹ Where has your Beloved gone, most beautiful among women? Where has your Beloved turned? For we seek Him along with you.² My Beloved has gone down to His garden, to the terraces of spices, to feed in the gardens and to gather lilies.³ I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved is mine. He feeds among the lilies.

⁴ O My love, you are as beautiful as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, awesome as bannered armies.⁵ Turn away your eyes from Me, because they have overcome Me. Your hair is like a flock of goats that lie down from Gilead.⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes which come up from the washing place, of which they all are bearing twins, and a bereaved one is not among them.⁷ Your temples behind your veil are like a piece of pomegranate.⁸ Sixty of them are queens, and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.⁹ But My dove, My perfect one is one alone . She is the only one to her mother; she is the choice of the one who bore her. The daughters saw her and calledher blessed; the queens and the concubinessaw her, and they praised her.¹⁰ Who is she who looks down like the dawn, beautiful as the moon, clear as the sun, awesome as bannered armies ?

¹¹ I went down to the garden of nut trees, to see the greenery of the ravine, to see whether the vine flowered and the pomegranates budded.¹² I did not know, but My soul set Me on the chariots of My princely people.¹³ Return, return, O Shulamite! Return, return, that we may gaze upon you. What will you see in the Shulamite? As it were the dance of two army camps.