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 gardensand 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 goatsdescending from Gilead.
6. Your teeth are like a flock of sheepcoming up from the washing.Each has its twin,not one of them is missing.
7. Your temples behind your veilare 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 favourite 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?