Chapter 7

  How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.  

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  Thy navel is a round goblet, [which] wanteth not mixed wine; Thy belly a heap of wheat, set about with lilies;  

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  Thy two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle;  

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  Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; Thine eyes, [like] the pools in Heshbon, By the gate of Bath-rabbim; Thy nose like the tower of Lebanon, Which looketh toward Damascus;  

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  Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the locks of thy head like purple; The king is fettered by [thy] ringlets!  

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  How fair and how pleasant art thou, [my] love, in delights!  

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  This thy stature is like to a palm-tree, And thy breasts to grape clusters.  

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  I said, I will go up to the palm-tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof; And thy breasts shall indeed be like clusters of the vine, And the fragrance of thy nose like apples,  

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  And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine, ... That goeth down smoothly for my beloved, And stealeth over the lips of them that are asleep.  

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  I am my beloved's, And his desire is toward me.  

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  -- Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields; Let us lodge in the villages.  

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  We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, [If] the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee my loves.  

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  The mandrakes yield fragrance; And at our gates are all choice fruits, new and old: I have laid them up for thee, my beloved.  

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