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Now I'd like to try to
read a poem that I've never

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read to anybody before.

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Well as a matter of
fact, I translated

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the Song of Songs, the Song of
Solomon, into my own situation.

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In the Song of Songs,
there's an enjoining

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to come away from the city to
a place of orchards and plants

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and big sky and nice
soil and quiet love.

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I applied this to my
situation at the time.

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So I will now take
my translation of,

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and I do it verse by verse, of
song 4 of the Song of Songs.

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Look, you are
beautiful, my love.

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Look, you are beautiful.

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Eyes of doves wink
in your hair, you

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are fair as the doves
from the enlit mountains.

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Your teeth, too, shine at
me, somewhere smiling to me.

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Your lips are pink, the line
of them bringing me to you.

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The call from you
whispers in my ear.

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Your temples, delicate sight
of skin under restless moving

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of your hair.

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In the night, your
neck takes light

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as ivory reflected in pools
and jewels wink there.

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1,000 of them moving.

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Your two breasts are alive
and young to my touch,

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as young deer together in
the air of a friendly forest.

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And you have flowers on you.

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Lilies.

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Till the sun suggests
a brightness upon us

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and the shadows
move quickly away,

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I will walk in the forest
of lilies in the morning.

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Look, you are
beautiful, my love.

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There is no flaw upon thee.

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Come with me from
Vancouver, my wife.

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Look from hills over Okanagan,
flowered Valley of Glacier Cut.

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For you have ravished me
away, my heart, my wife.

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You have ravished me away
with one of your green eyes,

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with one jewel of your neck.

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Look, your love is
beautiful, my wife.

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Better than the wine I have
tasted, better than the spices,

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all their scents.

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Look, your lips, my
wife, like the honeycomb.

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Honey and milk tasted
under your tongue.

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The scent of your dress
like Okanagan in spring.

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Your scent, you are a
garden enclosed, my wife.

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A spring enclosed,
a fountain sealed.

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Your plants are an orchard
of ripe apples, peaches,

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and plums.

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Plums and pears, plump
cherries with trees

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of blossoms crazy out of thyme.

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Apricots,
blackberries, currants,

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and grapes intermingled
with spices.

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A fountain of gardens, a well
of living waters and streams

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from Okanagan.

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North wind awake blow
South down the Valley.

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Below here upon my garden flow
the spices over all the land.

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With you I will enter my garden
and we will live therein.

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