| 1 ¶ How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.
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| 2 Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor:1 thy belly is like an heap of wheat set about with lilies.
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| 3 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
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| 4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
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| 5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel,2 and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held3 in the galleries.
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| 6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
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| 7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
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| 8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
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| 9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly,4 causing the lips of those5 that are asleep to speak.
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| 10 ¶ I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
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| 11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
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| 12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear,6 and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
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| 13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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