The Song of Solomon 1:6-11

⁶Look not upon me, because I am dark, because the sun has looked unfavourably upon me: my mother's sons strove with me; they made me keeper in the vineyards; I have not kept my own vineyard.

⁷Tell me, thou whom my soul loves, where thou tendest thy flock, where thou causest them to rest at noon, lest I become as one that is veiled by the flocks of thy companions.

⁸If thou know not thyself, thou fair one among women, go thou forth by the footsteps of the flocks, and feed thy kids by the shepherds' tents.

⁹I have likened thee, my companion, to my horses in the chariots of Pharao.

¹⁰How are thy cheeks beautiful as those of a dove, thy neck as chains!

¹¹We will make thee figures of gold with studs of silver.