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(A)I belong to my lover, and my lover belongs to me;
    he feeds among the lilies.

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10 And your mouth like the best wine—
    Wthat flows down smoothly for my lover,
    gliding[a] over my lips and teeth.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:10 Gliding: the beloved interrupts her partner’s compliment by referring to the intoxication of their union. The translation rests on an emendation of the enigmatic “the lips of the sleepers.”