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98 lines
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\c 6
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\sp The women of Jerusalem speaking to the young woman
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\q1
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\v 1 You who are the most beautiful of the women,
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\q2 where has the one who loves you gone?
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\q1 If you tell us which direction he went,
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\q2 we will go with you to search for him.
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\sp The young woman speaking to herself
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\q1
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\v 2 The one who loves me has come to me, I, who am like his garden,
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\q2 He has come to enjoy my charms,
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\q1 to enjoy cuddling embracing me
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\q2 and kissing my lips, which are like lilies.
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\q1
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\v 3 I belong to the one who loves me, and the one who loves me belongs to me.
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\q2 He has pleasure in kissing my lips,
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\q2 like sheep enjoy grazing.
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\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
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\q1
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\v 4 My darling, you are beautiful,
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\q2 as Tirzah the capital city of Israel and Jerusalem the capital city of Judah are beautiful;
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\q2 you make me tremble, just as if I had seen a great army approach.
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\q1
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\v 5 Stop looking at me like that,
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\q2 because your eyes excite me very much.
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\q1 Your long black hair moves from side to side like a flock of black goats
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\q2 moving down the slopes of Mount Gilead.
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\q1
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\v 6 Your teeth are very white
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\q2 like a flock of sheep whose wool has just been shorn
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\q1 and have come up from being washed in a stream.
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\q1 You have all of your teeth on both sides;
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\q2 none of them is missing.
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\q1
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\v 7 Beneath your veil,
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\q2 your cheeks are like the halves of a pomegranate.
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\sp The woman's lover speaking to himself
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\q1
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\v 8 Even if a king had 60 queens and 80 concubines
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\q2 and more young women than anyone can count,
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\q1
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\v 9 none of them would be like my dove, who is perfect,
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\q2 you who are your mother's only daughter,
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\q2 whom your mother considers to be very precious.
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\q1 Other young women who see you say that you are fortunate,
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\q2 and the queens and concubines recognize that you are very beautiful.
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\sp What the queens and the concubines said
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\q1
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\v 10 Who is this who looks like the dawn,
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\q2 who is as beautiful to look at as the moon,
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\q2 who is an endless mystery?
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\sp The woman's lover speaking to himself
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\q1
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\v 11 I went down to some walnut trees
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\q2 to look at the new plants that were growing in the valley.
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\q1 I wanted to see if the grapevines had budded
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\q2 and if the pomegranate trees were blooming.
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\q1
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\v 12 I was as happy as if
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\q2 I were riding in a chariot belonging to a prince.
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\sp The woman's lover speaking to her
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\q1
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\v 13 You who are the perfect one,
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\q2 come back to us, in order that I may see you!
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\sp The young woman speaking to her lover
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\q1 Why do you want to look at me, the one who is perfect,
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\q2 dancing between two rows of dancers?
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