Canticle of Canticles 6

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
1 Bride: "My beloved has descended to his garden, to the courtyard of aromatic plants, in order to pasture in the gardens and gather the lilies."	1 Where has your lover gone,
2 "I am for my beloved, and my beloved is for me. He pastures among the lilies."	2 My lover has come down to his garden,
3 Groom to Bride: "My love, you are beautiful: sweet and graceful, like Jerusalem; terrible, like an army in battle array."	3 My lover belongs to me and I to him;
4 "Avert your eyes from me, for they have caused me fly away. Your hair is like a flock of goats, which have appeared out of Gilead."	4 You are as beautiful as Tirzah, my beloved,
5 "Your teeth are like a flock of sheep, which have ascended from the washing, each one with its identical twin, and not one among them is barren."	5 Turn your eyes from me,
6 "Like the skin of a pomegranate, so are your cheeks, except for your hiddenness."	6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
7 "There are sixty queens, and eighty concubines, and maidens without number."	7 Your cheek is like a half-pomegranate
8 "One is my dove, my perfect one. One is her mother; elect is she who bore her. The daughters saw her, and they proclaimed her most blessed. The queens and concubines saw her, and they praised her."	8 There are sixty queens, eighty concubines,
9 Chorus to Groom: "Who is she, who advances like the rising dawn, as beautiful as the moon, as elect as the sun, as terrible as an army in battle array?"	9 One alone is my dove, my perfect one,
10 Bride: "I descended to the garden of nuts, in order to see the fruits of the steep valleys, and to examine whether the vineyard had flourished and the pomegranates had produced buds."	10 Who is this that comes forth like the dawn,
11 "I did not understand. My soul was stirred up within me because of the chariots of Amminadab."	11 I came down to the nut garden
12 Chorus to Bride: "Return, return, O Sulamitess. Return, return, so that we may consider you."	12 Before I knew it, my heart had made me