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Your teeth are like a flock of shorn ewes
    that have come up from the washing,
all of which bear twins,
    and not one among them is bereaved.
Your lips are like a scarlet thread,
    and your mouth is lovely.
Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate
    behind your veil.
Your neck is like the tower of David,
    built for an arsenal,[a]
whereon hang a thousand bucklers,
    all of them shields of warriors.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 4:4 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain

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