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8.9 :We will enclose her with boards of cedar.


 * I am a wall,
 * And my breasts like the towers thereof;
 * Then was I in his eyes
 * As one that found peace.


 * Solomon had a vineyard at Baal-hamon;
 * He gave over the vineyard unto keepers;
 * Every one for the fruit thereof
 * Brought in a thousand pieces of silver.
 * My vineyard, which is mine, is before me;
 * Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand,
 * And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.


 * Thou that dwellest in the gardens,
 * The companions hearken for thy voice:
 * 'Cause me to hear it.'


 * Make haste, my beloved,
 * And be thou like to a gazelle or to a young hart
 * Upon the mountains of spices.