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1 osculetur me osculo oris sui quia meliora sunt ubera tua vino
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1 Solomon's Song of Songs.
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2 fraglantia unguentis optimis oleum effusum nomen tuum ideo adulescentulae dilexerunt te
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2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth-- for your love is more delightful than wine.
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3 trahe me post te curremus introduxit me rex in cellaria sua exultabimus et laetabimur in te memores uberum tuorum super vinum recti diligunt te
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3 Pleasing is the fragrance of your perfumes; your name is like perfume poured out. No wonder the maidens love you!
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4 nigra sum sed formonsa filiae Hierusalem sicut tabernacula Cedar sicut pelles Salomonis
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4 Take me away with you--let us hurry! Let the king bring me into his chambers. We rejoice and delight in you; we will praise your love more than wine. How right they are to adore you!
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5 nolite me considerare quod fusca sim quia decoloravit me sol filii matris meae pugnaverunt contra me posuerunt me custodem in vineis vineam meam non custodivi
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5 Dark am I, yet lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, dark like the tents of Kedar, like the tent curtains of Solomon.
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6 indica mihi quem diligit anima mea ubi pascas ubi cubes in meridie ne vagari incipiam per greges sodalium tuorum
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6 Do not stare at me because I am dark, because I am darkened by the sun. My mother's sons were angry with me and made me take care of the vineyards; my own vineyard I have neglected.
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7 si ignoras te o pulchra inter mulieres egredere et abi post vestigia gregum et pasce hedos tuos iuxta tabernacula pastorum
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7 Tell me, you whom I love, where you graze your flock and where you rest your sheep at midday. Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your friends?
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8 equitatui meo in curribus Pharaonis adsimilavi te amica mea
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8 If you do not know, most beautiful of women, follow the tracks of the sheep and graze your young goats by the tents of the shepherds.
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9 pulchrae sunt genae tuae sicut turturis collum tuum sicut monilia
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9 I liken you, my darling, to a mare harnessed to one of the chariots of Pharaoh.
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10 murenulas aureas faciemus tibi vermiculatas argento
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10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, your neck with strings of jewels.
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11 dum esset rex in accubitu suo nardus mea dedit odorem suum
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11 We will make you earrings of gold, studded with silver.
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12 fasciculus murrae dilectus meus mihi inter ubera mea commorabitur
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12 While the king was at his table, my perfume spread its fragrance.
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13 botrus cypri dilectus meus mihi in vineis Engaddi
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13 My lover is to me a sachet of myrrh resting between my breasts.
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14 ecce tu pulchra es amica mea ecce tu pulchra oculi tui columbarum
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14 My lover is to me a cluster of henna blossoms from the vineyards of En Gedi.
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15 ecce tu pulcher es dilecte mi et decorus lectulus noster floridus
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15 How beautiful you are, my darling! Oh, how beautiful! Your eyes are doves.
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16 tigna domorum nostrarum cedrina laquearia nostra cypressina
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16 How handsome you are, my lover! Oh, how charming! And our bed is verdant.
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17 The beams of our house are cedars; our rafters are firs.
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