Solomon’s Most Excellent Love Song.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Oh, how I wish you would kiss me passionately!
For your lovemaking is more delightful than wine.
The fragrance of your colognes is delightful;
your name is like the finest perfume.
No wonder the young women adore you!
Draw me after you; let us hurry!
May the king bring me into his bedroom chambers!
The Maidens to the Lover:
We will rejoice and delight in you;
we will praise your love more than wine.
The Beloved to Her Lover:
How rightly the young women adore you!
The Beloved to the Maidens:
I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem,
dark like the tents of Qedar,
lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.
Do not stare at me because I am dark,
for the sun has burned my skin.
My brothers were angry with me;
they made me the keeper of the vineyards.
Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Tell me, O you whom my heart loves,
where do you pasture your sheep?
Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat?
Tell me lest I wander around
beside the flocks of your companions!
The Lover to His Beloved:
If you do not know, O most beautiful of women,
simply follow the tracks of my flock,
and pasture your little lambs
beside the tents of the shepherds.
The Lover to His Beloved:
O my beloved, you are like a mare
among Pharaoh’s stallions.
Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments;
your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.
We will make for you gold ornaments
studded with silver.
The Beloved about Her Lover:
While the king was at his banqueting table,
my nard gave forth its fragrance.
My beloved is like a fragrant pouch of myrrh
spending the night between my breasts.
My beloved is like a cluster of henna blossoms
in the vineyards of En Gedi.
The Lover to His Beloved:
Oh, how beautiful you are, my beloved!
Oh, how beautiful you are!
Your eyes are like doves!
The Beloved to Her Lover:
Oh, how handsome you are, my lover!
Oh, how delightful you are!
The lush foliage is our canopied bed;
the cedars are the beams of our bedroom chamber;
the pines are the rafters of our bedroom.
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