The Bride’s Praise of the Bridegroom

10 "My beloved is radiant and ruddy,

The chief among ten thousand

11 His head is finest gold;

His curls are as black as the raven.

12 His eyes are like doves

Over brooklets of water,

Or bathing in milk,

As they perch on the brink.

13 His cheeks are like beds of spices,

Like banks of sweet herbs.

His lips are like lilies – adrip

With their liquid myrrh.

14 His arms are like tapers of gold

That are inlaid with jasper;

His belly like ivory wrought

And encrusted with sapphires.

15 His legs are like pillars of marble

On sockets of gold.

He looks altogether like Lebanon,

Grand as the cedars.

16 Sweetness itself is his mouth;

He is all of him lovely.

Such is my love and my darling,

Ye maids of Jerusalem."