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1:1  Solomon's Song of Songs.
1:2  Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth-- for your love is more delightful than wine.
1:3  Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the young women love you!
1:4  Take me away with you--let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. Friends We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. She How right they are to adore you!
1:5  Dark am I, yet lovely, daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.
1:6  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 had to neglect.
1:7  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?
1:8  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.
1:9  I liken you, my darling, to a mare among Pharaoh's chariot horses.
1:10  Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
1:11  We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.
1:12  While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
1:13  My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
1:14  My beloved is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
1:15  How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
1:16  How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.
1:17  The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.