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The Canticle of canticles

The Canticle of canticles


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CANTIQUE VI




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Where did my lover went, O the most beautiful of women?
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Where did your lover flee, so that we seek for him with you?
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My beloved has descended to his garden, to the embalmed floors,
to let his herd feed into the gardens, and to collect the lily.
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I belong to my beloved, and my beloved belong to me!
He feeds the lily among his herd.
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You are beautiful, my friend, like Cirçé,
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charming like Jerusalem, frightening like a battalion.
Divert from me your glances, because they assail me!
Your hair is a herd of goats,
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undulating on the slopes of Galaad.
Your teeth are a herd of ewes, which returns from the bath.
Each one has its twin and none is deprived of it.
Your cheeks are halves of grenade behind your veil.
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My lover has sixty queens and eighty concubines!
and the yound girls without number.
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Unique is my dove, my perfect.
She is the unique of her mother, the preferred by whom gave her birth.
 The BibleWhere did your lover go itself from there, ô most beautiful of the women?
The young women saw her and where jealous,
queens and concubines celebrated her:
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"Who is she who emerges like the dawn,
beautiful like the moon, resplendent like the sun,
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frightening like battalions? "

To the garden of the walnut trees I went down,
to see the young growths of the valley,
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to see whether the vine buds, if the grenadines are in flowers.
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I do not know, but my desire threw me under the charms of Amminadîb!


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