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I thought, “I will climb the palm tree
    and take hold of its fruit.”
    May your breasts be like clusters on the vine.
    May the fragrance of your breath be like apples.
        May your mouth taste like the best wine . . .

[Bride]

    . . . that goes down smoothly to my beloved
        and glides over the lips of those about to sleep.[a]
10 I am my beloved’s, and he longs for me.

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Footnotes

  1. Song of Solomon 7:9 Or “flowing gently over lips and teeth.”

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