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    Your neck is elegant like the tower of David,
        perfectly fit stone-by-stone.
    There hang a thousand shields,
        the shields of mighty men.
    Your breasts are like two fawns,
        twin gazelles grazing in a meadow of lilies.
    As the day breathes its morning breeze
        and shadows turn and flee,
    I will go up your myrrh mountain
        and climb your frankincense hill.

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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.