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² Kiss me and kiss me again,
    for your love is sweeter than wine.
³ How pleasing is your fragrance;
    your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils.
    No wonder all the young women love you!
⁴ Take me with you; come, let's run!
    The king has brought me into his bedroom.

How happy we are for you, O king.
    We praise your love even more than wine.

How right they are to adore you.

⁵ I am dark but beautiful,
    O women of Jerusalem—
dark as the tents of Kedar,
    dark as the curtains of Solomon's tents.
⁶ Don't stare at me because I am dark—
    the sun has darkened my skin.
My brothers were angry with me;
    they forced me to care for their vineyards,
    so I couldn't care for myself—my own vineyard.

⁷ Tell me, my love, where are you leading your flock today?
    Where will you rest your sheep at noon?
For why should I wander like a prostitute^[b]
    among your friends and their flocks?

⁸ If you don't know, O most beautiful woman,
    follow the trail of my flock,
    and graze your young goats by the shepherds' tents.
⁹ You are as exciting, my darling,
    as a mare among Pharaoh's stallions.
¹⁰ How lovely are your cheeks;
    your earrings set them afire!
How lovely is your neck,
    enhanced by a string of jewels.
¹¹ We will make for you earrings of gold
    and beads of silver.

¹² The king is lying on his couch,
    enchanted by the fragrance of my perfume.
¹³ My lover is like a sachet of myrrh
    lying between my breasts.
¹⁴ He is like a bouquet of sweet henna blossoms
    from the vineyards of En-gedi.

¹⁵ How beautiful you are, my darling,
    how beautiful!
    Your eyes are like doves.

¹⁶ You are so handsome, my love,
    pleasing beyond words!
The soft grass is our bed;
¹⁷     fragrant cedar branches are the beams of our house,
    and pleasant smelling firs are the rafters.