8 Let the king have sixty queens, eighty concubines,young women without number!
9 But I love only one,and she is as lovely as a dove.She is her mother's only daughter,her mother's favorite child.All women look at her and praise her;queens and concubines sing her praises.
10 Who is this whose glance is like the dawn?She is beautiful and bright,as dazzling as the sun or the moon.
11 I have come down among the almond treesto see the young plants in the valley,to see the new leaves on the vinesand the blossoms on the pomegranate trees.
12 I am trembling; you have made me as eager for loveas a chariot driver is for battle.
13 Dance, dance, girl of Shulam.Let us watch you as you dance.Why do you want to watch meas I dance between the rows of onlookers?