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Your cheeks behind your veil
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.
There might be 60 queens and 80 concubines.
    There might be more virgins than anyone can count.
But you are my perfect dove.
    There isn’t anyone like you.
    You are your mother’s favorite daughter.
The young women see you and call you blessed.
    The queens and concubines praise you.”

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Your temples behind your veil(A)
    are like the halves of a pomegranate.(B)
Sixty queens(C) there may be,
    and eighty concubines,(D)
    and virgins beyond number;
but my dove,(E) my perfect one,(F) is unique,
    the only daughter of her mother,
    the favorite of the one who bore her.(G)
The young women saw her and called her blessed;
    the queens and concubines praised her.

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