1 ¶ Oh, you are beautiful, my love; so beautiful; you have doves’ eyes within your locks: your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the hills of Gilead.

2 Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep, coming up from the washing; each one having a twin, and not one is missing among them.

3 Your lips are like a scarlet cord, and your mouth is lovely: your cheeks are like a halves of a pomegranate behind your locks.

4 Your neck is like the tower of David built as an arsenal, with a thousand round shields hung upon it, all the shields of mighty men.

5 Your two breasts are like two young gazelles that are twins, who feed among the lilies.

6 Until the day breaks, and the shadows flee away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

7 You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no spot in you.

8 ¶ Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, come with me from Lebanon: look out from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

9 You have captured my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have stolen my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.

10 How beautiful is your love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is your love than wine! and the fragrance of your ointments than all spices!

11 Your lips, O my spouse, drop sweetness like the honeycomb: honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon.

12 An enclosed garden is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

13 Your plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; henna, with spikenard,

14 Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices:

15 ¶ A fountain in a garden, a well of living water, and streams from Lebanon.

16 Awake, O north wind; and come, you south wind; blow on my garden, so that its perfumes may spread out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat its pleasant fruits.