Song 4

¹How beautiful you are, my darling—

²Your teeth are like a flock of newly shorn sheep

³Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon,

⁴Your neck is like the tower of David,

⁵Your breasts are like two fawns,

⁶Before the day breaks and the shadows flee,

⁷You are altogether beautiful, my darling;

⁸Come with me from Lebanon, my bride,

⁹You have captured my heart,

¹⁰How delightful is your love,

¹¹Your lips, my bride,

¹²My sister, my bride, you are a garden locked up,

¹³Your branches are an orchard of pomegranates

¹⁴with nard and saffron, with calamus and cinnamon,

¹⁵You are a garden spring,

¹⁶Awake, O north wind,