Cantico 7

NOVA VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 Convertere, convertere, Sula mitis; convertere, convertere, ut intueamur te. Quid aspicitis in Sulamitem, cum saltat inter binos choros?	1 Chorus to Groom: "What will you see in the Sulamitess, other than choruses of encampments?"
2 Quam pulchri sunt pedes tui in calceamentis, filia principis! Flexurae femorum tuorum sicut monilia, quae fabricata sunt manu artificis.	2 Chorus to Bride: "How beautiful are your footsteps in shoes, O daughter of a ruler! The joints of your thighs are like jewels, which have been fabricated by the hand of an artist."
3 Gremium tuum crater tornatilis: numquam indigeat vino mixto; venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.	3 "Your navel is a round bowl, never lacking in curvature. Your abdomen is like a bundle of wheat, surrounded with lilies."
4 Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, gemelli capreae,	4 "Your two breasts are like two young twin does."
5 collum tuum sicut turris eburnea. Oculi tui sicut piscinae in Hesebon, quae sunt ad portam Bathrabbim; nasus tuus sicut turris Libani, quae respicit contra Damascum.	5 "Your neck is like a tower of ivory. Your eyes like the fish ponds at Heshbon, which are at the entrance to the daughter of the multitude. Your nose is like the tower of Lebanon, which looks out toward Damascus."
6 Caput tuum ut Carmelus, et comae capitis tui sicut purpura; rex vincitur cincinnis.	6 "Your head is like Carmel, and the hairs of your head are like the purple of the king, bound into pleats."
7 Quam pulchra es et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis!	7 "Most beloved one, how beautiful you are, and how graceful in delights!"
8 Statura tua assimilata est palmae, et ubera tua botris.	8 "Your stature is comparable to the palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes."
9 Dixi: “ Ascendam in palmam et apprehendam fructus eius ”. Et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineae, et odor oris tui sicut malorum.	9 Groom: "I said, I will ascend to the palm tree, and take hold of its fruit. And your breasts will be like clusters of grapes on the vine. And the fragrance of your mouth will be like apples."
10 Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum, dignum dilecto meo ad potandum, labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.	10 Bride: "Your throat is like the finest wine: wine worthy for my beloved to drink, and for his lips and teeth to contemplate."
11 Ego dilecto meo, et ad me appetitus eius.	11 "I am for my beloved, and his turning is to me."
12 Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis;	12 "Approach, my beloved. Let us go out into the field; let us linger in the villages."
13 mane properabimus ad vineas, videbimus; si floruit vinea, si flores aperiuntur, si floruerunt mala punica; ibi dabo tibi amores meos.	13 "The mandrakes yield their fragrance. At our gates is every fruit. The new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for you."
14 Mandragorae dederunt odorem; in portis nostris omnia poma optima, nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.