03Your oils have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is oil poured forth, therefore the virgins love you.
04Take me away with you. Let us hurry. The king has brought me into his rooms. [Friends] We will be glad and rejoice in you. We will praise your love more than wine! Beloved They are right to love you.
05[Beloved] I am dark, but lovely, you daughters of Jerusalem, like Kedar's tents, like Solomon's curtains.
06Don't stare at me because I am dark, because the sun has scorched me. My mother's sons were angry with me. They made me keeper of the vineyards. I haven't kept my own vineyard.
07Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon; For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions?
08[Lover] If you don't know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds' tents.
