| The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000. | | The Song of Solomon | | 6 |
The Mutual Delight of the Bride and Bridegroom |
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Whither is thy beloved gone,
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O thou fairest among women? |
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Whither is thy beloved turned aside? |
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that we may seek him with thee. |
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My beloved is gone down into his garden,
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to the beds of spices, |
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to feed in the gardens, |
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and to gather lilies. |
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I am my beloved's,
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and my beloved is mine: |
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he feedeth among the lilies. |
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Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah,
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comely as Jerusalem, |
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terrible as an army with banners. |
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Turn away thine eyes from me,
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for they have overcome me: |
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thy hair is as a flock of goats |
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that appear from Gil'e-ad: |
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thy teeth are as a flock of sheep
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which go up from the washing, |
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whereof every one beareth twins, |
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and there is not one barren among them. |
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As a piece of a pomegranate
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are thy temples within thy locks. |
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There are threescore queens,
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and fourscore concubines, |
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and virgins without number. |
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My dove, my undefiled is but one;
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she is the only one of her mother, |
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she is the choice one of her that bare her. |
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The daughters saw her, and blessed her; |
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yea, the queens and the concubines, |
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and they praised her. |
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Who is she that looketh forth as the morning,
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fair as the moon, clear as the sun, |
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and terrible as an army with banners? |
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I went down into the garden of nuts
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to see the fruits of the valley, |
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and to see whether the vine flourished, |
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and the pomegranates budded. |
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Or ever I was aware,
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my soul made me like the chariots of Ammin'adib. |
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Return, return, O Shu'lamite;
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return, return, that we may look upon thee. |
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What will ye see in the Shu'lamite? |
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As it were the company of two armies. |
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