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 cunning workman
.
Thy navel is like a round
goblet
, which wanteth
not liquor
: thy belly
is like an heap
of wheat
set about
with lilies
.
Thy two breasts
are like two
young
roes
that are twins
.
Thy neck is as a tower
of ivory
; thine eyes
like the fishpools
in Heshbon
, by the gate
of Bathrabbim
: thy nose
is as the tower
of Lebanon
which looketh
toward
Damascus
.
Thine head upon thee is like Carmel
, and the hair
of thine head
like purple
; the king
is held
in the galleries
.
How fair and how pleasant
art thou, O love
, for delights
!
This thy stature is like
to a palm tree
, and thy breasts
to clusters
of grapes .
I said, I will go up
to the palm tree
, I will take hold
of the boughs
thereof: now also thy breasts
shall be as clusters
of the vine
, and the smell
of thy nose
like apples
;
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
.
I am my beloved's, and his desire
is toward me.
Come, my beloved
, let us go forth
into the field
; let us lodge
in the villages
.
Let us get up early to the vineyards
; let us see
if the vine
flourish
, whether the tender grape
appear
, and the pomegranates
bud forth
: there will I give
thee my loves
.
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
.