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¹ You are beautiful, my darling,
    beautiful beyond words.
Your eyes are like doves
    behind your veil.
Your hair falls in waves,
    like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead.
² Your teeth are as white as sheep,
    recently shorn and freshly washed.
Your smile is flawless,
    each tooth matched with its twin.^[a]
3 Your lips are like scarlet ribbon;
    your mouth is inviting.
Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates
    behind your veil.
⁴ Your neck is as beautiful as the tower of David,
    jeweled with the shields of a thousand heroes.
⁵ Your breasts are like two fawns,
    twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
⁶ Before the dawn breezes blow
    and the night shadows flee,
I will hurry to the mountain of myrrh
    and to the hill of frankincense.
⁷ You are altogether beautiful, my darling,
    beautiful in every way.

⁸ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,
    come with me from Lebanon.
Come down^[b] from Mount Amana,
    from the peaks of Senir and Hermon,
where the lions have their dens
    and leopards live among the hills.

⁹ You have captured my heart,
    my treasure,^[c] my bride.
You hold it hostage with one glance of your eyes,
    with a single jewel of your necklace.
¹⁰ Your love delights me,
    my treasure, my bride.
Your love is better than wine,
    your perfume more fragrant than spices.
¹¹ Your lips are as sweet as nectar, my bride.
    Honey and milk are under your tongue.
Your clothes are scented
    like the cedars of Lebanon.

¹² You are my private garden, my treasure, my bride,
    a secluded spring, a hidden fountain.
¹³ Your thighs shelter a paradise of pomegranates
    with rare spices—
henna with nard,
¹⁴     nard and saffron,
    fragrant calamus and cinnamon,
with all the trees of frankincense, myrrh, and aloes,
    and every other lovely spice.
¹⁵ You are a garden fountain,
    a well of fresh water
    streaming down from Lebanon's mountains.

¹⁶ Awake, north wind!
    Rise up, south wind!
Blow on my garden
    and spread its fragrance all around.
Come into your garden, my love;
    taste its finest fruits.