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Your two breasts are like two fawns that are twins of a roe, which feed among the lilies.
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Verse 5. Roes. This comparison does not seem happy: but exactitude is not required. Calmet.—Indeed if we were to take all in the literal sense, a very grotesque figure would arise, with a head like Carmel, a nose like a tower, and so forth which shews that the tropological or allegorical sense must be adopted. D.—The two Testaments given for our instruction, (chapter 1:2) or the charity towards God and our neighbour, may be meant. Theod.
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