¹Behold , you are beautiful , my love .

Behold , you are beautiful .

Your eyes are like doves behind your veil .

Your hair is as a flock of goats ,

that descend from Mount Gilead .

²Your teeth are like a newly shorn flock ,

which have come up from the washing ,

where every one of them has twins .

None is bereaved amongst them .

³Your lips are like scarlet thread .

Your mouth is lovely .

Your temples are like a piece of a pomegranate behind your veil .

⁴Your neck is like David ’s tower built for an armoury ,

on which a thousand shields hang ,

all the shields of the mighty men .

⁵Your two breasts are like two fawns

that are twins of a roe,

which feed amongst the lilies .

⁶Until the day is cool , and the shadows flee away ,

I will go to the mountain of myrrh ,

to the hill of frankincense .

⁷You are all beautiful , my love .

There is no spot in you .

⁸Come with me from Lebanon , my bride ,

with me from Lebanon .

Look from the top of Amana,

from the top of Senir and Hermon ,

from the lions’ dens ,

from the mountains of the leopards .

⁹You have ravished my heart , my sister, my bride .

You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes ,

with one chain of your neck .

¹⁰How beautiful is your love , my sister, my bride !

How much better is your love than wine ,

the fragrance of your perfumes than all kinds of spices !

¹¹Your lips , my bride , drip like the honeycomb .

Honey and milk are under your tongue .

The smell of your garments is like the smell of Lebanon .

¹²My sister, my bride , is a locked up garden ;

a locked up spring ,

a sealed fountain .

¹³Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates , with precious fruits ,

henna with spikenard plants ,

¹⁴spikenard and saffron ,

calamus and cinnamon , with every kind of incense tree ;

myrrh and aloes, with all the best spices ,

¹⁵a fountain of gardens ,

a well of living waters ,

flowing streams from Lebanon .

¹⁶Awake , north wind , and come, you south !

Blow on my garden , that its spices may flow out .

Let my beloved come into his garden ,

and taste his precious fruits .