“Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.”
The lover notes that the beloved's lips are like a crimson thread and her mouth is lovely, establishing the beloved's mouth as the locus of color, beauty, and sensory pleasure. The crimson thread suggests thinness, precision, and the artful line-drawing that creates beauty through careful delineation, suggesting that the beloved's beauty involves both natural wholeness and subtle refinement. The lovely mouth establishes that the beloved's speech, kisses, and oral presence are integral to her beauty, suggesting that aesthetic appreciation encompasses not merely visible form but the sensory and communicative functions of the beloved's body. This verse theologically suggests that authentic beauty comprises the entire sensory presence of the beloved, including capacities for speech and kiss.
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