Together in the Garden of Love
Solomon and His Bride Delight in Each Other
SONG OF SOLOMON 7 [†] How beautiful are your feet in sandals,
O t noble daughter!
Your rounded thighs are like u jewels,
the work of v a master hand.
2 Your navel is a rounded bowl
that never lacks mixed wine.
Your belly is a heap of wheat,
encircled with w lilies.
3[†] x Your two breasts are like two fawns,
twins of a gazelle.
4[†] Your y neck is like an ivory tower.
Your z eyes are pools in a Heshbon,
by the gate of Bath-rabbim.
Your nose is like a tower of b Lebanon,
which looks toward c Damascus.
5[†] Your head crowns you like e Carmel,
and your f flowing locks are like purple;
a king is held captive in the tresses.
6[^] g How beautiful and h pleasant you are,
O loved one, with all your delights! [1]
7[†] Your stature is like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters.
8 I say I will climb the palm tree
and lay hold of its fruit.
Oh may your breasts be like i clusters of the vine,
and the scent of your breath like apples,
9 and your j mouth [2] like the best wine.
She
It goes down smoothly for my beloved,
gliding over lips and teeth. [3]
l and his desire is for me.
11 m Come, my beloved,
let us go out into the fields
and lodge in the villages; [4]
12[†] let us go out early to the vineyards
n and see whether the vines have budded,
whether o the grape blossoms have opened
and the pomegranates are in bloom.
There I will give you my love.
13[†] p The mandrakes give forth fragrance,
and beside our doors are all choice fruits,
q new as well as old,
which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.