Song of Songs 1:2-7

2Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine.

3Your ointments have a pleasing fragrance. Your name is poured out like perfume. No wonder maidens love you!

4Draw me after you, let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers. Let us rejoice and be glad in you; let us extol your love more than wine. Rightly do they love you!

5I am black, but beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.

6Do not gaze at me because I am dark, because the sun has looked on me. My mother’s sons were angry with me and made me keeper of the vineyards; my very own vineyard I have not kept.

7Tell me, the one my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you make it lie down at noon? Why should I be as one veiled beside the flocks of your companions?