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(A)Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
    that come up from the washing,
All of them big with twins,
    none of them barren.
Like pomegranate halves,
    your cheeks behind your veil.
Sixty are the queens, eighty the concubines,
    and young women without number—

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Your teeth are like a flock of sheep
    coming up from the washing.
Each has its twin,
    not one of them is missing.(A)
Your temples behind your veil(B)
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(C)
Sixty queens(D) there may be,
    and eighty concubines,(E)
    and virgins beyond number;

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