Canticle of Canticles 7

New American Bible	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
¹ Turn, turn, O Shulammite,	¹ How graceful are your feet in sandals, O queenly maiden! Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand.
² How beautiful are your feet in sandals,	² Your navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
³ Your navel is a round bowl	³ Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
⁴ Your breasts are like twin fawns,	⁴ Your neck is like an ivory tower. Your eyes are pools in Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-rabbim. Your nose is like a tower of Lebanon, overlooking Damascus.
⁵ Your neck is like a tower of ivory.	⁵ Your head crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses.
⁶ You head rises like Carmel;	⁶ How fair and pleasant you are, O loved one, delectable maiden!
⁷ How beautiful you are, how pleasing,	⁷ You are stately as a palm tree, and your breasts are like its clusters.
⁸ Your very figure is like a palm tree,	⁸ I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its branches. Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
⁹ I said: I will climb the palm tree,	⁹ and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
¹⁰ And your mouth like an excellent wine-	¹⁰ I am my beloveds, and his desire is for me.
¹¹ I belong to my lover	¹¹ Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the fields, and lodge in the villages;
¹² Come, my lover, let us go forth to the fields	¹² let us go out early to the vineyards, and see whether the vines have budded, whether the grape blossoms have opened and the pomegranates are in bloom. There I will give you my love.
¹³ Let us go early to the vineyards, and see	¹³ The mandrakes give forth fragrance, and over our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, O my beloved.
¹⁴ The mandrakes give forth fragrance,