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My beloved is mine
"My beloved belongs to me"
and I am his
"and I belong to him"
he grazes
"feeds" or "eats grass." The woman compares her beloved with an animal that eats plants among the lilies, like a gazelle or young stag.
dawn
the part of the day when the sun is rising
the shadows flee away
The woman describes the shadows as though they were running away from the light of the sun. AT: "the shadows disappear." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
like a gazelle or a young stag
See how you translated this in Song of Solomon 2:8.
gazelle
a type of slender deer-like animal with long curved horns
stag
an adult male deer
rugged
"rocky" or "rough"