Canticle of Canticles 7

NEW JERUSALEM	VULGATA
1 CHORUS: Come back, come back, girl from Shulam, come back, come back, where we can look at you!Why are you looking at the girl from Shulam, dancing between two lines of dancers?	1 (Sponsa)Quid videbis in Sulamite, nisi choros castrorum ? (Chorus)Quam pulchri sunt gressus tui in calceamentis, filia principis ! Juncturæ femorum tuorum sicut monilia quæ fabricata sunt manu artificis.
2 LOVER: How beautiful are your feet in their sandals, O prince's daughter! The curve of your thighs islike the curve of a necklace, work of a master hand.	2 Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis, numquam indigens poculis. Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.
3 Your navel is a bowl wel rounded with no lack of wine, your bel y a heap of wheat surrounded with lilies.	3 Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, gemelli capreæ.
4 Your two breasts are two fawns, twins of a gazel e.	4 Collum tuum sicut turris eburnea ; oculi tui sicut piscinæ in Hesebon quæ sunt in porta filiæ multitudinis. Nasus tuus sicut turris Libani, quæ respicit contra Damascum.
5 Your neck is an ivory tower. Your eyes, the pools of Heshbon, by the gate of Bath-Rabbim. Your nose,the Tower of Lebanon, sentinel facing Damascus.	5 Caput tuum ut Carmelus ; et comæ capitis tui sicut purpura regis vincta canalibus.
6 Your head is held high like Carmel, and its hair is as dark as purple; a king is held captive in yourtresses.	6 (Sponsus)Quam pulchra es, et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis !
7 How beautiful you are, how charming, my love, my delight!	7 Statura tua assimilata est palmæ, et ubera tua botris.
8 In stature like the palm tree, its fruit-clusters your breasts.	8 Dixi : Ascendam in palmam, et apprehendam fructus ejus ; et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineæ, et odor oris tui sicut malorum.
9 I have decided, 'I shall climb the palm tree, I shall seize its clusters of dates!' May your breasts beclusters of grapes, your breath sweet-scented as apples,	9 Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum, dignum dilecto meo ad potandum, labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.
10 and your palate like sweet wine. BELOVED: Flowing down the throat of my love, as it runs on the lipsof those who sleep.	10 (Sponsa)Ego dilecto meo, et ad me conversio ejus.
11 I belong to my love, and his desire is for me.	11 Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis.
12 Come, my love, let us go to the fields. We will spend the night in the villages,	12 Mane surgamus ad vineas : videamus si floruit vinea, si flores fructus parturiunt, si floruerunt mala punica ; ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.
13 and in the early morning we wil go to the vineyards. We will see if the vines are budding, if theirblossoms are opening, if the pomegranate trees are in flower. Then I shall give you the gift of my love.	13 Mandragoræ dederunt odorem in portis nostris omnia poma : nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.
14 The mandrakes yield their fragrance, the most exquisite fruits are at our doors; the new as well as theold, I have stored them for you, my love.