What is thy Beloved more than any beloved, II 12 13 14 5 The chief among ten thousand. His Head is a mass of gold most fine; His Eyes are like the doves His Cheeks like beds of balsams, Flowers of sweetest smell; His Lips are like the lilies, His Hands have rings of gold, Set with beryl stones; His Body is bright ivory, His Look is like 16 VI. 3 His Mouth is every sweetness; This is my Beloved one, DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. Whither has thy Beloved gone, O thou Fair One amongst women? That we may seek for him with thee? THE BRIDE. My Beloved has gone down into his garden, To feed in the gardens, And to gather lilies. I am my Beloved's, and my Beloved mine; He that feeds among the lilies. PART II.- -CHAP. VI. 4-10. The King Returning gives his last Description of the Bride. THE KING. 4 Fair art thou, my Friend, as Tirzah, Beautiful as Jerusalem, Thy Hair is like a flock of goats, That hang adown the Gilead; 6 Thy Teeth are like a flock of ewes 7 Like the halves of the pomegranate 8 9 ΙΟ Threescore are they, the queens, The only one is she unto her mother, The chosen one she unto her that bare her. The daughters beheld her, And blessed her; The queens and concubines, And praised her: "Who is this that looketh down like the morn, Fair as the moon, Bright as the sun, Awful as the hosts of heaven?” PART III.- CHAP. VI. II-VII. 10. arden of Nuts in Winter, with approaching Spring; Portrait of the Bride by the Daughters of Jerusalem, now becoming one with her. II 12 THE BRIDE. To the Garden of nuts went I down, If in blossom the pomegranates; 6 VII. DAUGHTERS OF JERUSALEM. (One in name of many uniting with the Bride.) How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, The girdle of thy sides like neck-chains, 3 Thy two breasts like two twinlings of the roe; Thy neck like a tower of ivory. 4 Thine eyes are the water-pools in Heshbon, 5 Thy head-wreath on thee like to Carmel, How fair thou art, and how pleasant, This form of thine is like the palm |