6:1  " Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Where has your beloved turned, That we may seek him with you?"

6:2  " My beloved has gone down to his garden, To the beds of balsam, To pasture his flock in the gardens And gather lilies.

6:3  " I belong to my beloved and my beloved belongs to me, He who pastures his flock among the lilies."

6:4  " You have as much beauty as Tirzah, my darling, As lovely as Jerusalem, As awesome as an army with banners.

6:5  "Turn your eyes away from me, For they have confused me; Your hair resembles a flock of goats That have descended from Gilead.

6:6  " Your teeth resemble a flock of ewes Which have come up from their washing, All of which bear twins, And not one among them has lost her young.

6:7  " Your temples resembles a slice of a pomegranate Behind your veil.

6:8  "There exist sixty queens and eighty concubines, And maidens without number;

6:9  But my dove, my perfect one, has uniqueness: We know her as her mother's only daughter; We know her as the pure child of the one who bore her The maidens saw her and called her blessed, The queens and the concubines also, and they praised her, saying,

6:10  'Who grows like the dawn, As beautiful as the full moon, As pure as the sun, As awesome as an army with banners?'

6:11  "I went down to the orchard of nut trees To see the blossoms of the valley, To see whether the vine had budded Or the pomegranates had bloomed.

6:12  "Before I became aware, my soul set me Over the chariots of my noble people."

6:13  " Come back, come back, O Shulammite; Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!" " Why should you gaze at the Shulammite, As at the dance of the two companies?