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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].

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1   How beautiful are your sandalled feet, O prince's daughter!
  The curves of your thighs are like jewels,
    the work of a skilled craftsman.
     2   Your navel is a rounded goblet
    that never shall want for spiced wine.
    Your belly is a heap of wheat
    fenced in by lilies.
   3   Your two breasts are like two fawns,
    twin fawns of a gazelle.
   4   Your neck is like a tower of ivory.
  Your eyes are the pools in Heshbon,
    beside the gate of the crowded city. ^note
  Your nose is like towering Lebanon
    that looks towards Damascus.
   5   You carry your head like Carmel;
    the flowing hair on your head is lustrous black,
    your tresses are braided with ribbons.
     6   How beautiful, how entrancing you are,
    my loved one, daughter of delights!
   7   You are stately as a palm-tree,
    and your breasts are the clusters of dates.
   8   I said, ‘I will climb up into the palm
    to grasp its fronds.’
May I find your breasts like clusters of grapes on the vine,
    the scent of your breath like apricots,
   9   and your whispers ^note like spiced wine
  flowing smoothly to welcome my caresses,
  gliding down through lips and teeth. ^note

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Love songs Bride

10   I am my beloved's, his longing is all for me.
11   Come, my beloved, let us go out into the fields
    to lie among the henna-bushes;
   12   let us go early to the vineyards
and see if the vine has budded or its blossom opened,
    if the pomegranates are in flower.
  There will I give you my love,
   13   when the mandrakes give their perfume,
  and all rare fruits are ready at our door,
  fruits new and old
  which I have in store for you, my love.

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New English [1970], THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE) [word count] [B16000].