Songofsolomon 4 in plain modern English. New Ground English Translation.

How beautiful you are, my darling — how utterly beautiful. Your eyes behind your veil are doves. Your hair cascades like a flock of goats streaming down the slopes of Gilead.

Your teeth are like a flock just shorn, coming up from the washing — each one paired with its twin, not one of them alone.

Your lips are a thread of scarlet, and your mouth is lovely. Your temples behind your veil are like the halves of a pomegranate.

Your neck is like the tower of David, built in courses of stone — a thousand shields hang upon it, all the armor of warriors.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, grazing among the lilies.

Before the day breathes cool and the shadows slip away, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, to the hill of frankincense.

Every part of you is beautiful, my darling. There is no flaw in you at all.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride — come with me from Lebanon. Descend from the peak of Amana, from the summit of Senir and Hermon, from the dens of lions, from the mountain haunts of leopards.

You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride — you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.

How sweet is your love, my sister, my bride — how much sweeter your love than wine, and the fragrance of your perfumes than any spice.

Your lips drip with nectar, my bride — honey and milk are under your tongue, and the scent of your garments is like the scent of Lebanon.

A garden locked is my sister, my bride — a garden locked, a spring sealed.

Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates with the finest fruits — henna and spikenard,

spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with every kind of incense tree — myrrh and aloes with all the finest spices.

You are a garden spring, a well of living water, streams flowing down from Lebanon.

Awake, north wind — and come, south wind! Breathe upon my garden and let its fragrances drift out. Let my beloved come into his garden and taste its finest fruits.