7:4 Thy neck is as a tower of ivory; thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bathrabbim: thy nose is as the tower of Lebanon which looketh toward Damascus.
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7:5 Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.
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7:6 How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
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7:7 This thy stature is like to a palm tree, and thy breasts to clusters of grapes.
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7:8 I said, I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of the boughs thereof: now also thy breasts shall be as clusters of the vine, and the smell of thy nose like apples;
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7:9 And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.
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7:10 I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.
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7:11 Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.
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7:12 Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.
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7:13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
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Chapter 8
8:1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.
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8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.
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8:3 His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.
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8:4 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.
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8:5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
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8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
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8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
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8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
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8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
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8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his eyes as one that found favour.
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8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.
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8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon, must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
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8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to thy voice: cause me to hear it.
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8:14 Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.
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