Cantar, 6

1. ¿A dónde se fue tu amado, oh la más bella de las mujeres? ¿A dónde tu amado se volvió, para que contigo le busquemos?

1. Whither has your beloved gone, O fairest among women? Whither has your beloved turned, that we may seek him with you?

2. Mi amado ha bajado a su huerto, a las eras de balsameras, a apacentar en los huertos, y recoger lirios.

2. My beloved has gone down to his garden, to the beds of spices, to pasture his flock in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

3. Yo soy para mi amado y mi amado es para mí: él pastorea entre los lirios.

3. I am my beloved's and my beloved is mine; he pastures his flock among the lilies.

4. Hermosa eres, amiga mía, como Tirsá, encantadora, como Jerusalén, imponente como batallones.

4. You are beautiful as Tirzah, my love, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

5. Retira de mí tus ojos, que me subyugan. Tu melena cual rebaño de cabras que ondulan por el monte Galaad.

5. Turn away your eyes from me, for they disturb me -- Your hair is like a flock of goats, moving down the slopes of Gilead.

6. Tus dientes, un rebaño de ovejas, que salen de bañarse. Todas tienen mellizas, y entre ellas no hay estéril.

6. Your teeth are like a flock of ewes, that have come up from the washing, all of them bear twins, not one among them is bereaved.

7. Tus mejillas, como cortes de granada a través de tu velo.

7. Your cheeks are like halves of a pomegranate behind your veil.

8. Sesenta son las reinas, ochenta las concubinas, (e innumerables las doncellas).

8. There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and maidens without number.

9. Unica es mi paloma, mi perfecta. Ella, la única de su madre, la preferida de la que la engendró. Las doncellas que la ven la felicitan, reinas y concubinas la elogian:

9. My dove, my perfect one, is only one, the darling of her mother, flawless to her that bore her. The maidens saw her and called her happy; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.

10. «¿Quién es ésta que surge cual la aurora, bella como la luna, refulgente como el sol, imponente como batallones?»

10. "Who is this that looks forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun, terrible as an army with banners?"

11. Al nogueral había yo bajado para ver la floración del valle, a ver si la vid estaba en cierne, y si florecían los granados.

11. I went down to the nut orchard, to look at the blossoms of the valley, to see whether the vines had budded, whether the pomegranates were in bloom.

12. ¡Sin saberlo, mi deseo me puso en los carros de Aminadib!

12. Before I was aware, my fancy set me in a chariot beside my prince.

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13. Return, return, O Shu'lammite, return, return, that we may look upon you. Why should you look upon the Shu'lammite, as upon a dance before two armies?