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[1]How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a skillful workman.
[2]Thy navel is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like a heap of wheat set about with lilies.
[3]Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins.
[4]Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thy eyes like the fish-pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh towards Damascus.
[5]Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thy head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
[6]How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
[7]This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
[8]I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its boughs: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
[9]And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
[10]I am my beloved's, and his desire is towards me.
[11]Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
[12]Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourisheth, whether the tender grape appeareth, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
[13]The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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