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Beautiful From Top to Bottom

The Man

Look at you. You are beautiful, my darling!
Look at you. You are beautiful!
Your eyes are doves behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
which flows down from Mount Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock,
ready to be sheared,
which comes up from the washing.
Each is a twin. Not one of them is left by itself.
Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon.
Your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks behind your veil
are like the halves of a pomegranate.
Like the tower of David,
your neck is adorned with rows of stones.[a]
A thousand shields hang on it,
all of them the equipment of warriors.
Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle, that browse among the lilies.

Until the day breathes and the shadows flee,
I will go to the mountain of myrrh,
and to the hill of incense.

You are altogether beautiful, my darling.
There is no flaw in you.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 Or adorned with elegance. The meaning is uncertain.