⁷ “^(R)You are altogether beautiful, my darling,
And there is no blemish in you.
⁸ “Come with me from ^(S)Lebanon, my ^(T)bride,
May you come with me from Lebanon.
^[g]Journey down from the summit of ^(U)Amana,
From the summit of ^(V)Senir and Hermon,
From the dens of lions,
From the mountains of leopards.
⁹ “You have made my heart beat faster, ^(W)my sister, my bride;
You have made my heart beat faster with a single glance of your eyes,
With a single strand of your ^(X)necklace.
¹⁰ “^(Y)How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride!
How much ^(Z)better is your love than wine,
And the ^(AA)fragrance of your oils
Than all kinds of ^[h]spices!
¹¹ “Your lips, my bride, ^(AB)drip ^(AC)honey;
Honey and milk are under your tongue,
And the fragrance of your garments is like the ^(AD)fragrance of Lebanon.
¹² “A garden locked is my sister, my bride,
A ^[i]rock garden locked, a ^(AE)spring ^(AF)sealed up.
¹³ “Your shoots are an ^[j](AG)orchard of ^(AH)pomegranates
With ^(AI)choice fruits, ^(AJ)henna with nard plants,
^14 (AK)Nard and saffron, calamus and ^(AL)cinnamon,
With all the trees of ^(AM)frankincense,
^(AN)Myrrh and aloes, along with all the finest ^[k]spices.
¹⁵ “You are a garden spring,
A well of ^[l](AO)fresh water,
And streams flowing from Lebanon.”

¹⁶ “^[m]Awake, O north wind,
And come, wind of the south;
Make my ^(AP)garden breathe out fragrance,
Let its ^[n]spices ^[o]be wafted abroad.
May ^(AQ)my beloved come into his garden
And eat its ^(AR)choice fruits!”

² “^[t]I was asleep but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, ^(AY)my sister, my darling,
^(AZ)My dove, my perfect one!
For my head is ^[u]drenched with dew,
My ^(BA)locks with the ^[v]damp of the night.’
³ “I have ^(BB)taken off my dress,
How can I put it on again?
I have ^(BC)washed my feet,
How can I dirty them again?
⁴ “My beloved extended his hand through the opening,
And my ^[w](BD)feelings were aroused for him.
⁵ “I arose to open to my beloved;
And my hands ^(BE)dripped with myrrh,
And my fingers with ^[x]liquid myrrh,
On the handles of the bolt.
⁶ “I opened to my beloved,
But my beloved had ^(BF)turned away and had gone!
My ^[y]heart went out to him as he ^(BG)spoke.
I ^(BH)searched for him but I did not find him;
I ^(BI)called him but he did not answer me.
⁷ “The ^(BJ)watchmen who make the rounds in the city found me,
They struck me and wounded me;
The guardsmen of the walls took away my shawl from me.
⁸ “I ^(BK)adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem,
If you find my beloved,
As to what you will tell him:
For ^(BL)I am lovesick.”

⁹ “^[z][aa]What kind of beloved is your beloved,
O ^(BM)most beautiful among women?
^[ab]What kind of beloved is your beloved,
That thus you adjure us?”

² “^[ai]My beloved has gone down to his ^(CD)garden,
To the ^(CE)beds of balsam,
To ^(CF)pasture his flock in the gardens
And gather ^(CG)lilies.
³ “^(CH)I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine,
He who ^(CI)pastures his flock among the lilies.”

⁴ “^[aj](CJ)You are as beautiful as ^(CK)Tirzah, my darling,
As ^(CL)lovely as ^(CM)Jerusalem,
As ^(CN)awesome as ^[ak]an army with banners.
⁵ “Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
^(CO)Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.
⁶ “^(CP)Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Which have come up from their washing,
All of which bear twins,
And not one among them has ^[al]lost her young.
⁷ “^(CQ)Your temples are like a slice of a pomegranate
Behind your veil.
⁸ “There are sixty ^(CR)queens and eighty concubines,
And ^[am](CS)maidens without number;
⁹ But ^(CT)my dove, my perfect one, is ^[an]unique:
She is her mother’s ^[ao]only daughter;
She is the pure child of the one who bore her.
The ^[ap](CU)maidens saw her and called her blessed,
The ^(CV)queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

¹⁰ ‘Who is this that ^[aq]grows like the dawn,
As beautiful as the full ^(CW)moon,
As pure ^(CX)as the sun,
As ^(CY)awesome as ^[ar]an army with banners?’
¹¹ “I went down to the orchard of nut trees
To see the blossoms of the valley,
To see whether ^(CZ)the vine had budded
Or the ^(DA)pomegranates had bloomed.
¹² “Before I was aware, my soul set me
Over the chariots of ^[as]my noble people.”

¹³ “^[at][au]Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”

“^[av]Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
As at the ^(DB)dance of ^[aw](DC)the two companies?