1 How beautiful your sandaled feet, O prince's daughter! Your graceful legs are like jewels, the work of an artist's hands.2 Your navel is a rounded goblet that never lacks blended wine. Your waist is a mound of wheat encircled by lilies.3 Your breasts are like two fawns, like twin fawns of a gazelle.4 Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are the pools of Heshbon by the gate of Bath Rabbim. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon looking toward Damascus.5 Your head crowns you like Mount Carmel. Your hair is like royal tapestry; the king is held captive by its tresses.6 How beautiful you are and how pleasing, my love, with your delights!7 Your stature is like that of the palm, and your breasts like clusters of fruit.8 I said, "I will climb the palm tree; I will take hold of its fruit." May your breasts be like clusters of grapes on the vine, the fragrance of your breath like apples,9 and your mouth like the best wine. May the wine go straight to my beloved, flowing gently over lips and teeth. [^2]10 I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.11 Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside, let us spend the night in the villages. [^3]12 Let us go early to the vineyards to see if the vines have budded, if their blossoms have opened, and if the pomegranates are in bloom — there I will give you my love.13 The mandrakes send out their fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, both new and old, that I have stored up for you, my beloved.
1 [ Sponsa Quid videbis in Sulamite, nisi choros castrorum ?Chorus Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui in calceamentis, filia principis !Junctur femorum tuorum sicut moniliaqu fabricata sunt manu artificis.2 Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis,numquam indigens poculis.Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.3 Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli,gemelli capre.4 Collum tuum sicut turris eburnea ;oculi tui sicut piscin in Hesebonqu sunt in porta fili multitudinis.Nasus tuus sicut turris Libani,qu respicit contra Damascum.5 Caput tuum ut Carmelus ;et com capitis tui sicut purpura regisvincta canalibus.6 Sponsus Quam pulchra es, et quam decora,carissima, in deliciis !7 Statura tua assimilata est palm,et ubera tua botris.8 Dixi : Ascendam in palmam,et apprehendam fructus ejus ;et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vine,et odor oris tui sicut malorum.9 Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum,dignum dilecto meo ad potandum,labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.10 Sponsa Ego dilecto meo,et ad me conversio ejus.11 Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum,commoremur in villis.12 Mane surgamus ad vineas :videamus si floruit vinea,si flores fructus parturiunt,si floruerunt mala punica ;ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.13 Mandragor dederunt odoremin portis nostris omnia poma :nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.]