Song of Songs 8:1-2

New Catholic Bible

¹ Oh, if only you were to me like a brother,
    nursed at my mother’s breast.
Then if I met you out of doors,
    I could kiss you
    without people regarding me with scorn.^[a]
2 I would lead you
    and bring you into the home of my mother.
There you would teach me to give you spiced wine to drink
    and the juice of my pomegranates.