Canticle of Canticles 6

¹ Where has your lover gone,

² My lover has come down to his garden,

³ My lover belongs to me and I to him;

⁴ You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my beloved,

⁵ Turn your eyes from me,

⁶ Your teeth are like a flock of ewes

⁷ Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate

⁸ There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,

⁹ One alone is my dove, my perfect one,

¹⁰ Who is this that comes forth like the dawn,

¹¹ I came down to the nut garden

¹² Before I knew it, my heart had made me