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Canticle of Canticles or Song of Songs meaning the Greatest of Songs. (about 538 B.C.)

A praise of the mutual love of the Lord and His people. Here from the inspired word of God is also a description of the love, sacredness, and depth of the married union.

(TEV) Song of Songs The Third Song 1 How beautiful you are, my love! How your eyes shine with love behind your veil. Your hair dances like a flock of goats bounding down the hills of Gilead. 2 Your teeth are white as sheep that have just been shorn and washed. Not one of them is missing; they all are perfectly matched. 3 Your lips are like a scarlet ribbon; how lovely they are when you speak. Your cheeks glow behind your veil. 4 Your neck is like the tower of David, round and smooth, with a necklace like a thousand shields hung around it. 5 Your breasts are like gazelles, twin deer feeding among lilies. 6 I will stay on the hill of myrrh, the hill of incense, until the morning breezes blow and the darkness disappears. 7 How beautiful you are, my love; how perfect you are! 8 Come with me from the Lebanon Mountains, my bride; come with me from Lebanon. Come down from the top of Mount Amana, from Mount Senir and Mount Hermon, where the lions and leopards live. 9 The look in your eyes, my sweetheart and bride, and the necklace you are wearing have stolen my heart. 10 Your love delights me, my sweetheart and bride. Your love is better than wine; your perfume more fragrant than any spice. 11 The taste of honey is on your lips, my darling, your tongue is milk and honey for me. Your clothing has all the fragrance of Lebanon. "My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden,a walled garden, a private spring;"> My sweetheart, my bride, is a secret garden,a walled garden, a private spring; 13 there the plants flourish. They grow like an orchard of pomegranate trees and bear the finest fruits. There is no lack of henna and nard, 14 of saffron, calamus and cinnamon, or incense of every kind. Myrrh and aloes grow there with all the most fragrant perfumes. 15 Fountains water the garden, streams of flowing water, brooks gushing down from the Lebanon Mountains.

* Note the beautiful insight; the veiled sacredness of "the garden" of the sister in this Bible Verse:
"12 ...You are an enclosed garden, my sister, my bride, an enclosed garden, a fountain sealed..."
Bibliography: The Holy Bible, New Catholic Edition, 1962, Catholic Book Publishing Company, New York, Pages 747-753.