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

1 [ Sponsa Osculetur me osculo oris sui ;quia meliora sunt ubera tua vino,2 fragrantia unguentis optimis.Oleum effusum nomen tuum ;ideo adolescentul dilexerunt te.3 Chorus Adolescentularum Trahe me, post te curremusin odorem unguentorum tuorum.Introduxit me rex in cellaria sua ;exsultabimus et ltabimur in te,memores uberum tuorum super vinum.Recti diligunt te.4 Sponsa Nigra sum, sed formosa, fili Jerusalem,sicut tabernacula Cedar, sicut pelles Salomonis.5 Nolite me considerare quod fusca sim,quia decoloravit me sol.Filii matris me pugnaverunt contra me ;posuerunt me custodem in vineis :vineam meam non custodivi.6 Indica mihi, quem diligit anima mea, ubi pascas,ubi cubes in meridie,ne vagari incipiam post greges sodalium tuorum.7 Sponsus Si ignoras te, o pulcherrima inter mulieres,egredere, et abi post vestigia gregum,et pasce hdos tuos juxta tabernacula pastorum.8 Equitatui meo in curribus Pharaonisassimilavi te, amica mea.9 Pulchr sunt gen tu sicut turturis ;collum tuum sicut monilia.10 Murenulas aureas faciemus tibi,vermiculatas argento.11 Sponsa Dum esset rex in accubitu suo,nardus mea dedit odorem suum.12 Fasciculus myrrh dilectus meus mihi ;inter ubera mea commorabitur.13 Botrus cypri dilectus meus mihiin vineis Engaddi.14 Sponsus Ecce tu pulchra es, amica mea ! ecce tu pulchra es !Oculi tui columbarum.15 Sponsa Ecce tu pulcher es, dilecte mi, et decorus !Lectulus noster floridus.16 Tigna domorum nostrarum cedrina,laquearia nostra cypressina.]