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# Chapter 7
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1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet,
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O queenly maiden.
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Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
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the work of a skilled craftsman.
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2 Your navel is perfectly formed
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like a goblet filled with mixed wine.
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Between your thighs lies a mound of wheat
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bordered with lilies.
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3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
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twin fawns of a gazelle.
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4 Your neck is as beautiful as an ivory tower.
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Your eyes are like the sparkling pools in Heshbon
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by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
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Your nose is as fine as the tower of Lebanon
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overlooking Damascus.
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5 Your head is as majestic as Mount Carmel,
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and the sheen of your hair radiates royalty.
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The king is held captive by its tresses.
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6 Oh, how beautiful you are!
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How pleasing, my love, how full of delights!
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7 You are slender like a palm tree,
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and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
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8 I said, “I will climb the palm tree
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and take hold of its fruit.”
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May your breasts be like grape clusters,
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and the fragrance of your breath like apples.
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9 May your kisses be as exciting as the best wine—
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Yes, wine that goes down smoothly for my lover,
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flowing gently over lips and teeth.
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10 I am my lover’s,
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and he claims me as his own.
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11 Come, my love, let us go out to the fields
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and spend the night among the wildflowers.
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12 Let us get up early and go to the vineyards
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to see if the grapevines have budded,
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if the blossoms have opened,
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and if the pomegranates have bloomed.
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There I will give you my love.
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13 There the mandrakes give off their fragrance,
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and the finest fruits are at our door,
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new delights as well as old,
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which I have saved for you, my lover. |