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      "verse": 1,
      "text": "Let him kiss me with the kiss of his mouth: for thy breasts are better than wine,",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 1:1 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 2,
      "text": "Smelling sweet of the best ointments. Thy name is as oil poured out: therefore young maidens have loved thee.",
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      "verse": 3,
      "text": "Draw me: we will run after thee to the odour of thy ointments. The king hath brought me into his storerooms: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, remembering thy breasts more than wine: the rightous love thee.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 1:3 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 4,
      "text": "I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon.",
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      "verse": 5,
      "text": "Do not consider me that I am brown, because the sun hath altered my colour: the sons of my mother have fought against me, they have made me the keeper in the vineyards: my vineyard I have not kept.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 1:5 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 6,
      "text": "Shew me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou liest in the midday, lest I begin to wander after the flocks of thy companions.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 1:6 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 7,
      "text": "If thou know not thyself, O fairest among women, go forth, and follow after the steps of the flocks, and feed thy kids beside the tents of the shepherds.",
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      "verse": 8,
      "text": "To my company of horsemen, in Pharao's chariots, have I likened thee, O my love.",
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      "verse": 9,
      "text": "Thy cheeks are beautiful as the turtledove's, thy neck as jewels.",
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      "verse": 10,
      "text": "We will make thee chains of gold, inlaid with silver.",
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      "verse": 11,
      "text": "While the king was at his repose, my spikenard sent forth the odour thereof.",
      "citation": "Canticle of Canticles 1:11 (Douay-Rheims)"
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      "verse": 12,
      "text": "A bundle of myrrh is my beloved to me, he shall abide between my breasts.",
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      "verse": 13,
      "text": "A cluster of cypress my love is to me, in the vineyards of Engaddi.",
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      "verse": 14,
      "text": "Behold thou are fair, O my love, behold thou are fair, thy eyes are as those of doves.",
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      "verse": 15,
      "text": "Behold thou art fair, my beloved, and comely. Our bed is flourishing.",
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      "verse": 16,
      "text": "The beams of our houses are of cedar, our rafters of cypress trees.",
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