Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you(A)
    if you find my beloved,(B)
what will you tell him?
    Tell him I am faint with love.(C)

Friends

How is your beloved better than others,
    most beautiful of women?(D)
How is your beloved better than others,
    that you so charge us?

She

10 My beloved is radiant and ruddy,
    outstanding among ten thousand.(E)
11 His head is purest gold;
    his hair is wavy
    and black as a raven.
12 His eyes are like doves(F)
    by the water streams,
washed in milk,(G)
    mounted like jewels.
13 His cheeks(H) are like beds of spice(I)
    yielding perfume.
His lips are like lilies(J)
    dripping with myrrh.(K)
14 His arms are rods of gold
    set with topaz.
His body is like polished ivory
    decorated with lapis lazuli.(L)
15 His legs are pillars of marble
    set on bases of pure gold.
His appearance is like Lebanon,(M)
    choice as its cedars.
16 His mouth(N) is sweetness itself;
    he is altogether lovely.
This is my beloved,(O) this is my friend,
    daughters of Jerusalem.(P)

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Friends

Where has your beloved(A) gone,
    most beautiful of women?(B)
Which way did your beloved turn,
    that we may look for him with you?

She

My beloved has gone(C) down to his garden,(D)
    to the beds of spices,(E)
to browse in the gardens
    and to gather lilies.
I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;(F)
    he browses among the lilies.(G)

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