en_tn/sng/02/16.md

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"