“I am black but comely,
O ye daughters of Jerusalem,
As the tents of Kedar,
As the curtains of Solomon.
Look not upon me, because I am black,
Because the sun has looked upon me.”
Thus she speaks of the superiority which nature had given her over the women of Jerusalem. She was handsome, and like all handsome women, she knew it.
The bride again speaks, and says to the bride-groom:—
“I have compared thee, O my love,
To a company of horses in Pharaoh’s chariot.”