| The Mutual Delight of the Bride and Bridegroom |
| 1 | Whither is thy beloved gone,
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| O thou fairest among women? |
| Whither is thy beloved turned aside? |
| that we may seek him with thee. |
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| 2 | My beloved is gone down into his garden,
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| to the beds of spices, |
| to feed in the gardens, |
| and to gather lilies. |
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| 3 | I am my beloved's,
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| and my beloved is mine: |
| he feedeth among the lilies. |
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| 4 | Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah,
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| comely as Jerusalem, |
| terrible as an army with banners. |
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| 5 | Turn away thine eyes from me,
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| for they have overcome me: |
| thy hair is as a flock of goats |
| that appear from Gil'e-ad: |
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| 6 | thy teeth are as a flock of sheep
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| which go up from the washing, |
| whereof every one beareth twins, |
| and there is not one barren among them. |
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| 7 | As a piece of a pomegranate
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| are thy temples within thy locks. |
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| 8 | There are threescore queens,
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| and fourscore concubines, |
| and virgins without number. |
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| 9 | My dove, my undefiled is but one;
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| she is the only one of her mother, |
| she is the choice one of her that bare her. |
| The daughters saw her, and blessed her; |
| yea, the queens and the concubines, |
| and they praised her. |
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| 10 | Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
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| fair as the moon, clear as the sun, |
| and terrible as an army with banners? |
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| 11 | I went down into the garden of nuts
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| to see the fruits of the valley, |
| and to see whether the vine flourished, |
| and the pomegranates budded. |
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| 12 | Or ever I was aware,
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| my soul made me like the chariots of Ammin'adib. |
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| 13 | Return, return, O Shu'lamite;
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| return, return, that we may look upon thee. |
| What will ye see in the Shu'lamite? |
| As it were the company of two armies. |
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