Canticum Canticorum 7

VULGATA	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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.	1 Chorus to Groom: "What will you see in the Sulamitess, other than choruses of encampments?"
2 Umbilicus tuus crater tornatilis, numquam indigens poculis. Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici vallatus liliis.	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 Duo ubera tua sicut duo hinnuli, gemelli capreæ.	3 "Your navel is a round bowl, never lacking in curvature. Your abdomen is like a bundle of wheat, surrounded with lilies."
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.	4 "Your two breasts are like two young twin does."
5 Caput tuum ut Carmelus ; et comæ capitis tui sicut purpura regis vincta canalibus.	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 (Sponsus)Quam pulchra es, et quam decora, carissima, in deliciis !	6 "Your head is like Carmel, and the hairs of your head are like the purple of the king, bound into pleats."
7 Statura tua assimilata est palmæ, et ubera tua botris.	7 "Most beloved one, how beautiful you are, and how graceful in delights!"
8 Dixi : Ascendam in palmam, et apprehendam fructus ejus ; et erunt ubera tua sicut botri vineæ, et odor oris tui sicut malorum.	8 "Your stature is comparable to the palm tree, and your breasts to clusters of grapes."
9 Guttur tuum sicut vinum optimum, dignum dilecto meo ad potandum, labiisque et dentibus illius ad ruminandum.	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 (Sponsa)Ego dilecto meo, et ad me conversio ejus.	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 Veni, dilecte mi, egrediamur in agrum, commoremur in villis.	11 "I am for my beloved, and his turning is to me."
12 Mane surgamus ad vineas : videamus si floruit vinea, si flores fructus parturiunt, si floruerunt mala punica ; ibi dabo tibi ubera mea.	12 "Approach, my beloved. Let us go out into the field; let us linger in the villages."
13 Mandragoræ dederunt odorem in portis nostris omnia poma : nova et vetera, dilecte mi, servavi tibi.	13 "The mandrakes yield their fragrance. At our gates is every fruit. The new and the old, my beloved, I have kept for you."