1   How beautiful are your feet in sandals,

    O royal princess!

  The curves of your thighs are like jewels,

    the work of the hands of a craftsman.

2   Your navel is a round wine-mixing bowl

    that does not lack mixed wine!

  Your belly is a heap of wheat

    encircled with lilies.

3   Your two breasts are like two fawns,

    twins of a gazelle.

4   Your neck is like a tower of ivory;

    your eyes are pools in Heshbon at the gate of Beth Rabbim.

  Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon

    looking out over Damascus.

5   Your head crowns you like Carmel;

    the flowing locks of your head are like purple tapestry;

      a king is held captive in the tresses!

6   How beautiful you are and how pleasant,

    O loved one in the delights!

7   Your stature is like the palm tree,

    and your breasts are like clusters.

8   I say, “I will climb up the palm tree;

    I will lay hold of its fruit clusters.”

  Let your breasts be pleasing like clusters of the vine

    and the scent of your breath like the apples.

9   Your palate is like the best wine that goes down for my beloved,

    smoothly gliding over my lips and teeth.

 

10   I belong to my beloved,

    and he desires me!

 

11   Come, my beloved, let us go out to the countryside;

    let us spend the night in the villages.

12   Let us rise early to go to the vineyards;

    let us see whether the vine has budded,

  whether the grape blossom has opened,

    and whether the pomegranates are in bloom;

  there I will give my love to you.

13   The mandrakes give off their fragrance,

    and over our doorway is every kind of delicious fruit;

  both fresh and dried fruit I have stored up for you, O my beloved.