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- Solomon's Song of Songs.
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- Let him kiss me with the
kisses of his mouth-- for your love is more delightful than wine.
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- Pleasing is the fragrance of
your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens
love you!
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- Take me away with you--let us
hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in
you; we will praise your love more than wine. How right they are to adore
you!
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- Dark am I, yet lovely, O
daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains
of Solomon.
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- Do not stare at me because I
am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother's sons were angry with
me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected.
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- Tell me, you whom I love,
where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why
should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?
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- If you do not know, most
beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young
goats by the tents of the shepherds.
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- I liken you, my darling, to a
mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh.
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- Your cheeks are beautiful with
earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
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- We will make you earrings of
gold, studded with silver.
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- While the king was at his
table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
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- My lover is to me a sachet of
myrrh resting between my breasts.
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- My lover is to me a cluster of
henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
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- How beautiful you are, my
darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
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- How handsome you are, my
lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.
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- The beams of our house are
cedars; our rafters are firs.
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