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Chapter 7

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D ¹ Turn, turn, O Shulammite,
turn, turn, that we may look at you!
B Why would you look at the Shulammite
as at the dance of the two companies?

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D ² How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O prince's daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like jewels,
the handiwork of an artist.

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Your navel is a round bowl
that should never lack for mixed wine.
Your body is a heap of wheat
encircled with lilies.

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Your breasts are like twin fawns,
the young of a gazelle.

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³ Your neck is like a tower of ivory.
Your eyes are like the pools in Heshbon
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like the tower on Lebanon
that looks toward Damascus.

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You head rises like Carmel;
your hair is like draperies of purple;
a king is held captive in its tresses.

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G How beautiful you are, how pleasing,
my love, my delight!

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⁴ Your very figure is like a palm tree,
your breasts are like clusters.

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I said: I will climb the palm tree,
I will take hold of its branches.
Now let your breasts be like clusters of the vine
and the fragrance of your breath like apples,

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⁵ And your mouth like an excellent wine -
B that flows smoothly for my lover,
spreading over the lips and the teeth.

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⁶ I belong to my lover
and for me he yearns.

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Come, my lover, let us go forth to the fields
and spend the night among the villages.

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Let us go early to the vineyards, and see
if the vines are in bloom,
If the buds have opened,
if the pomegranates have blossomed;
There will I give you my love.

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⁷ The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and at our doors are all choice fruits;
Both fresh and mellowed fruits, my lover,
I have kept in store for you.