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My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh that lies between my breasts.
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My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms in the vineyards of Engedi.
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She
Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our couch is green;
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She
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
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The Bride Adores Her Beloved
The voice of my beloved! Behold, he comes, leaping over the mountains, bounding over the hills.
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My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Behold, there he stands behind our wall, gazing through the windows, looking through the lattice.
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My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away,
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My beloved is mine, and I am his; he grazes among the lilies.
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Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on cleft mountains.
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Awake, O north wind, and come, O south wind! Blow upon my garden, let its spices flow.
Together in the Garden of Love
She
Let my beloved come to his garden, and eat its choicest fruits.
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The Bride Searches for Her Beloved
She
I slept, but my heart was awake. A sound! My beloved is knocking. “Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my perfect one, for my head is wet with dew, my locks with the drops of the night.”
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My beloved put his hand to the latch, and my heart was thrilled within me.
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I arose to open to my beloved, and my hands dripped with myrrh, my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the handles of the bolt.
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I opened to my beloved, but my beloved had turned and gone. My soul failed me when he spoke. I sought him, but found him not; I called him, but he gave no answer.
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I adjure you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you find my beloved, that you tell him I am sick with love.
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Others
What is your beloved more than another beloved, O most beautiful among women? What is your beloved more than another beloved, that you thus adjure us?
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The Bride Praises Her Beloved
She
My beloved is radiant and ruddy, distinguished among ten thousand.
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His mouth is most sweet, and he is altogether desirable. This is my beloved and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.
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Others
Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?
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Together in the Garden of Love
She
My beloved has gone down to his garden to the beds of spices, to graze in the gardens and to gather lilies.
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I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he grazes among the lilies.
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and your mouth like the best wine.
She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved, gliding over lips and teeth.
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I am my beloved's, and his desire is for me.
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The Bride Gives Her Love
Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields and lodge in the villages;
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The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and beside our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
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Longing for Her Beloved
Oh that you were like a brother to me who nursed at my mother's breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you, and none would despise me.
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Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.
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She
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag on the mountains of spices.