² Kiss me and kiss me again,
    for your love is sweeter than wine.
³ How pleasing is your fragrance;
    your name is like the spreading fragrance of scented oils.
    No wonder all the young women love you!
⁴ Take me with you; come, let’s run!
    The king has brought me into his bedroom.

How happy we are for you, O king.
    We praise your love even more than wine.

How right they are to adore you.

4 You are beautiful, my darling,
beautiful beyond words.
Your eyes are like doves
behind your veil.
Your hair falls in waves,
like a flock of goats winding down the slopes of Gilead.
² Your teeth are as white as sheep,
recently shorn and freshly washed.
Your smile is flawless,
each tooth matched with its twin.^[a]
3 Your lips are like scarlet ribbon;
your mouth is inviting.
Your cheeks are like rosy pomegranates
behind your veil.
⁴ Your neck is as beautiful as the tower of David,
jeweled with the shields of a thousand heroes.
⁵ Your breasts are like two fawns,
twin fawns of a gazelle grazing among the lilies.
⁶ Before the dawn breezes blow
and the night shadows flee,
I will hurry to the mountain of myrrh
and to the hill of frankincense.
⁷ You are altogether beautiful, my darling,
beautiful in every way.