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Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    young twins of a gazelle
    that graze among the lilies.
Before the dawn comes,
    and the shadows flee,
I will hasten to the mountain of myrrh
    and the hill of frankincense.
You are all-beautiful, my love,
    without the slightest blemish.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:7 See the description of the Church in Eph 5:27. The Liturgy applies this verse to our Lady in the celebration of the Immaculate Conception on December 8.