1 Where has your beloved gone, most beautiful of women? Which way did your beloved turn, that we may look for him with you?2 My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to browse in the gardens and to gather lilies.3 I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he browses among the lilies.4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my darling, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.5 Turn your eyes from me; they overwhelm me. Your hair is like a flock of goats descending from Gilead.6 Your teeth are like a flock of sheep coming up from the washing. Each has its twin, not one of them is missing.7 Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.8 Sixty queens there may be, and eighty concubines, and virgins beyond number;9 but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the only daughter of her mother, the favorite of the one who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines praised her.10 Who is this that appears like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, majestic as the stars in procession?11 I went down to the grove of nut trees to look at the new growth in the valley, to see if the vines had budded or the pomegranates were in bloom.12 Before I realized it, my desire set me among the royal chariots of my people. [^1]13 Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, that we may gaze on you! Why would you gaze on the Shulammite as on the dance of Mahanaim? [^2]

1 [ Sponsa Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum,ut pascatur in hortis, et lilia colligat.2 Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi,qui pascitur inter lilia.3 Sponsus Pulchra es, amica mea ;suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem ;terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.4 Averte oculos tuos a me,quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt.Capilli tui sicut grex caprarumqu apparuerunt de Galaad.5 Dentes tui sicut grex oviumqu ascenderunt de lavacro :omnes gemellis ftibus,et sterilis non est in eis.6 Sicut cortex mali punici, sic gen tu,absque occultis tuis.7 Sexaginta sunt regin, et octoginta concubin,et adolescentularum non est numerus.8 Una est columba mea, perfecta mea,una est matris su, electa genetrici su.Viderunt eam fili, et beatissimam prdicaverunt ;regin et concubin, et laudaverunt eam.9 Qu est ista qu progreditur quasi aurora consurgens,pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol,terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata ?10 Sponsa Descendi in hortum nucum,ut viderem poma convallium,et inspicerem si floruisset vinea,et germinassent mala punica.11 Nescivi : anima mea conturbavit me,propter quadrigas Aminadab.12 Chorus Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis !revertere, revertere ut intueamur te.]