a lovely deer, a graceful doe. May her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be intoxicated always by her love.
Now there came a traveler to the rich man, and he was loath to take one of his own flock or herd to prepare for the wayfarer who had come to him, but he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared that for the guest who had come to him.”
Drink water from your own cistern, flowing water from your own well.
Why should you be intoxicated, my son, by another woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Until the day breathes and the shadows flee, turn, my beloved, be like a gazelle or a young stag on the cleft mountains.
My beloved is like a gazelle or a young stag. Look, there he stands behind our wall, gazing in at the windows, looking through the lattice.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that feed among the lilies.
Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle.
Make haste, my beloved, and be like a gazelle or a young stag upon the mountains of spices!