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Your neck is like the tower of David, built for an arsenal, whereon hang a thousand bucklers, all of them shields of warriors.

Your two breasts are like two fawns, like twins of a gazelle that feed among the lilies.

Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away, [in my thoughts] I will get to the mountain of myrrh and the hill of frankincense [to him whom my soul adores].

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Your neck is like the tower(A) of David,
    built with courses of stone[a];
on it hang a thousand shields,(B)
    all of them shields of warriors.
Your breasts(C) are like two fawns,
    like twin fawns of a gazelle(D)
    that browse among the lilies.(E)
Until the day breaks
    and the shadows flee,(F)
I will go to the mountain of myrrh(G)
    and to the hill of incense.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Songs 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.