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How is your beloved better than another beloved, You fairest among women? How is your beloved better than another beloved, That you do so adjure us? Beloved
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My beloved is white and ruddy. The best among ten thousand.
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His head is like the purest gold. His hair is bushy, black as a raven.
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His eyes are like doves beside the water brooks, Washed with milk, mounted like jewels.
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His cheeks are like a bed of spices with towers of perfumes. His lips are like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
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His hands are like rings of gold set with beryl. His body is like ivory work overlaid with sapphires.
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His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
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His mouth is sweetness; Yes, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, Daughters of Jerusalem. Friends