Canticum Canticorum 6
1 quo abiit dilectus tuus o pulcherrima mulierum quo declinavit dilectus tuus et quaeremus eum tecum
Where is your loved one gone, O most fair among women? Where is your loved one turned away, that we may go looking for him with you?
2 dilectus meus descendit in hortum suum ad areolam aromatis ut pascatur in hortis et lilia colligat
My loved one is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to take food in the gardens, and to get lilies.
3 ego dilecto meo et dilectus meus mihi qui pascitur inter lilia
I am for my loved one, and my loved one is for me; he takes food among the lilies.
4 pulchra es amica mea suavis et decora sicut Hierusalem terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata
You are beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, as fair as Jerusalem; you are to be feared like an army with flags.
5 averte oculos tuos a me quia ipsi me avolare fecerunt capilli tui sicut grex caprarum quae apparuerunt de Galaad
Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.
6 dentes tui sicut grex ovium quae ascenderunt de lavacro omnes gemellis fetibus et sterilis non est in eis
Your teeth are like a flock of sheep which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.
7 sicut cortex mali punici genae tuae absque occultis tuis
Like pomegranate fruit are the sides of your head under your veil.
8 sexaginta sunt reginae et octoginta concubinae et adulescentularum non est numerus
There are sixty queens, and eighty servant-wives, and young girls without number.
9 una est columba mea perfecta mea una est matris suae electa genetrici suae viderunt illam filiae et beatissimam praedicaverunt reginae et concubinae et laudaverunt eam
My dove, my very beautiful one, is but one; she is the only one of her mother, she is the dearest one of her who gave her birth. The daughters saw her, and gave her a blessing; yes, the queens and the servant-wives, and they gave her praises.
10 quae est ista quae progreditur quasi aurora consurgens pulchra ut luna electa ut sol terribilis ut acies ordinata
Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
11 descendi ad hortum nucum ut viderem poma convallis ut inspicerem si floruisset vinea et germinassent mala punica
I went down into the garden of nuts to see the green plants of the valley, and to see if the vine was in bud, and the pomegranate-trees were in flower.
12 nescivi anima mea conturbavit me propter quadrigas Aminadab
Before I was conscious of it, ...
13 revertere revertere Sulamitis revertere revertere ut intueamur te quid videbis in Sulamiten nisi choros castrorum
Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.
