The lover declares that the beloved's breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, reiterating the image from earlier praise and establishing this as a sustained motif of the beloved's beautiful and symmetrical form. The repetition of this image suggests that the lover's appreciation of this particular feature is consistent and that these breasts merit reiteration across the poem. The continuation of the pastoral metaphor establishes that the beloved's body itself is a kind of landscape or pastoral terrain, full of beauty and natural abundance. This verse theologically suggests that authentic love involves the sustained appreciation of particular features and that repetition testifies to the depth of the lover's attention and regard.

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