Song of Solomon 1

1The song of songs, which Solomon's. 2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for your love better than wine. 3Because of the savour of your good ointments your name ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love you. 4Draw me, we will run after you: the king has brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in you, we will remember your love more than wine: the upright love you. 5I black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 6Look not upon me, because I black, because the sun has looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; mine own vineyard have I not kept. 7Tell me, O you whom my soul loveth, where you feedest, where you makest to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of your companions? 8If you know not, O you fairest among women, go your way forth by the footsteps of the flock, and feed your kids beside the shepherds' tents. 9I have compared you, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots. 10your cheeks are comely with rows , your neck with chains . 11We will make you borders of gold with studs of silver. 12While the king at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof. 13A bundle of myrrh my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts. 14My beloved unto me a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi. 15Behold, you fair, my love; behold, you fair; you doves' eyes. 16Behold, you fair, my beloved, yes, pleasant: also our bed green. 17The beams of our house cedar, our rafters of fir.