"The Song of Songs of Solomon" (Chapter I in Spanish)

1 The Song of Songs of Solomon.

2 Bride: Let him kiss me with kisses of his mouth!

More delightful is your love than wine!

3 Your name spoken is a spreading perfume -

that is why the maidens love you.

4 Draw me!-

Daughters of Jerusalem: We will follow you eagerly!

Bride: Bring me, O king, to your chambers.

Daughters of Jerusalem: With you we rejoice and exult,

we extol your love; it is beyond wine:

how rightly you are loved!

(First Poem)

5 Bride: I am as dark-but lovely,

O daughters of Jerusalem -

As the tents of Kedar,

as the curtains of Salma.

6 Do not stare at me because I am swarthy,

because the sun has burned me.

My brothers have been angry with me;

they charged me with the care of the vineyards:

my own vineyard I have not cared for.

7 Bride: Tell me, you whom my heart loves,

where you pasture your flock,

where you give them rest at midday,

Lest I be found wandering

after the flocks of your companions.

8 Bridegroom: If you do not know,

O most beautiful among women,

Follow the tracks of the flock

and pasture the young ones

near the shepherds' camps.

9 Bridegroom: To the steeds of Pharaoh's chariots

would I liken you, my beloved:

10 Your cheeks lovely in pendants,

your neck in jewels.

11 We will make pendants of gold for you,

and silver ornaments.

12 Bride: For the king's banquet

my nard gives forth its fragrance.

13 My lover is for me a sachet of myrrh

to rest in my bosom.

14 My lover is for me a cluster of henna

from the vineyards of Engedi.

15 Bridegroom: Ah, you are beautiful, my beloved,

ah, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves!

16 Bride: Ah, you are beautiful, my lover -

yes, you are lovely.

Our couch, too, is verdant;

17 the beams of our house are cedars,

our rafters, cypresses.