<p class="poetry">Your lips are like a scarlet thread;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">your mouth is lovely.p> <p class="poetry">Your forehead<n id="2" /> behind your veilp> <p class="poetry">is like a slice of pomegranate.p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Speaker:i>b><n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Who is this coming up from the desertp> <p class="poetry">like a column of smoke,p> <p class="poetry">like<n id="2" /> a fragrant billow<n id="3" /> of myrrh and frankincense,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">every kind of fragrant powder<n id="5" /> of the traveling merchants?<n id="6" />p>

<t /><p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Maidens about His Beloved:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Who is this coming up from the desert,p> <p class="poetry">leaning on her beloved?p> <p class="sosspeaker"><b><i>The Beloved to Her Lover:i>b>p> <p class="poetry">Under the apple tree I aroused you;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">there your mother conceived you,p> <p class="poetry">there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.<n id="2" />p>