1. Solomon’s Most Excellent Love Song.
2. Oh, how I wish youwould kiss me passionately!For your lovemaking is more delightfulthan wine.
3. The fragrance of your colognes is delightful;your name is like the finest perfume.No wonder the young women adore you!
4. Draw me after you; let us hurry!May the kingbring me into his bedroom chambers!We will rejoice and delight in you;we will praise your love more than wine.The Beloved to Her Lover:How rightlythe young women adore you!
5. I am dark but lovely, O maidens of Jerusalem,dark like the tents of Qedar,lovely like the tent curtains of Salmah.
6. Do not stare at me because I am dark,for the sun has burned my skin.My brothers were angry with me;they made me the keeper of the vineyards.Alas, my own vineyard I could not keep!
7. Tell me, O you whom my heart loves,where do you pasture your sheep?Where do you rest your sheep during the midday heat?Tell me lest I wander aroundbeside the flocks of your companions!
8. If you do not know, O most beautiful of women,simply follow the tracks of my flock,and pasture your little lambsbeside the tents of the shepherds.