Canticum Canticorum 6

VULGATA	NEW JERUSALEM
1 (Sponsa)Dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatum, ut pascatur in hortis, et lilia colligat.	1 CHORUS: Where did your lover go, O loveliest of women? Which way did your lover turn so that we canhelp you seek him?
2 Ego dilecto meo, et dilectus meus mihi, qui pascitur inter lilia.	2 BELOVED: My love went down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock on the grass andgather lilies.
3 (Sponsus)Pulchra es, amica mea ; suavis, et decora sicut Jerusalem ; terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata.	3 I belong to my love, and my love to me. He pastures his flock among the lilies.
4 Averte oculos tuos a me, quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt. Capilli tui sicut grex caprarum quæ apparuerunt de Galaad.	4 LOVER: You are fair as Tirzah, my beloved, enchanting as Jerusalem, formidable as an army!
5 Dentes tui sicut grex ovium quæ ascenderunt de lavacro : omnes gemellis fœtibus, et sterilis non est in eis.	5 Turn your eyes away from me, they take me by assault! Your hair is like a flock of goats surging downthe slopes of Gilead.
6 Sicut cortex mali punici, sic genæ tuæ, absque occultis tuis.	6 Your teeth are like a flock of ewes as they come up from being washed. Each one has its twin, not oneunpaired with another.
7 Sexaginta sunt reginæ, et octoginta concubinæ, et adolescentularum non est numerus.	7 Your cheeks, behind your veil, are halves of pomegranate.
8 Una est columba mea, perfecta mea, una est matris suæ, electa genetrici suæ. Viderunt eam filiæ, et beatissimam prædicaverunt ; reginæ et concubinæ, et laudaverunt eam.	8 There are sixty queens and eighty concubines (and countless girls).
9 Quæ est ista quæ progreditur quasi aurora consurgens, pulchra ut luna, electa ut sol, terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata ?	9 My dove is my only one, perfect and mine. She is the darling of her mother, the favourite of the one whobore her. Girls have seen her and proclaimed her blessed, queens and concubines have sung her praises,
10 (Sponsa)Descendi in hortum nucum, ut viderem poma convallium, et inspicerem si floruisset vinea, et germinassent mala punica.	10 'Who is this arising like the dawn, fair as the moon, resplendent as the sun, formidable as an army?'
11 Nescivi : anima mea conturbavit me, propter quadrigas Aminadab.	11 I went down to the nut orchard to see the fresh shoots in the val ey, to see if the vines were buddingand the pomegranate trees in flower.
12 (Chorus)Revertere, revertere, Sulamitis ! revertere, revertere ut intueamur te.	12 Before I knew . . . my desire had hurled me onto the chariots of Amminadib!