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17 These things are yours alone
    and shouldn’t be shared with strangers.
18 Be happy with the wife you married when you were young.
    She gives you joy, as your fountain gives you water.
19 She is as lovely and graceful as a deer.
    Let her love always make you happy;
    let her love always hold you captive.

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17 Let them be yours alone,
    never to be shared with strangers.
18 May your fountain(A) be blessed,
    and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth.(B)
19 A loving doe, a graceful deer(C)
    may her breasts satisfy you always,
    may you ever be intoxicated with her love.

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