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# Chapter 7
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1 How beautiful are your sandaled feet, princess!
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The curves of your thighs are like jewelry,
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the handiwork of a master.
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2 Your navel is a rounded bowl;
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it never lacks mixed wine.
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Your belly is a mound of wheat
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surrounded by lilies.
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3 Your breasts are like two fawns,
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twins of a gazelle.
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4 Your neck is like a tower of ivory,
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your eyes like pools in Heshbon
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by Bath-rabbim’s gate.
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Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon
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looking toward Damascus.
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5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel,
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the hair of your head like purple cloth—
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a king could be held captive in your tresses.
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6 How beautiful you are and how pleasant,
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my love, with such delights!
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7 Your stature is like a palm tree;
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your breasts are 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 clusters of grapes,
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and the fragrance of your breath like apricots.
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9 Your mouth is like fine wine—
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flowing smoothly for my love,
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gliding past my lips and teeth!
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10 I am my love’s,
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and his desire is for me.
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11 Come, my love,
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let’s go to the field;
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let’s spend the night among the henna blossoms.
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12 Let’s go early to the vineyards;
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let’s see if the vine has budded,
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if the blossom has opened,
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if the pomegranates are in bloom.
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There I will give you my caresses.
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13 The mandrakes give off a fragrance,
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and at our doors is every delicacy,
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both new and old.
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I have treasured them up for you, my love. |