Song of Solomon 7:9

9. The roof of thy mouth Hebrew, thy palate; that is, thy speech.

For my beloved That is, Such wine as I would offer to a dear friend. Causing the lips, etc. It so quickens the blood that even silent lips grow talkative under its influence.

Into these few verses is thrown a faithful display of the character of Solomon, confirmed by his other Scriptural portraitures. We have seen the splendour of his pavilion and his train, the gorgeousness of his palace, the throngs of beautiful women that, like stars, adorn his court. We see the proud owner of all this, arrayed in all his glory and with arts of address, compress temptation to its intensest form by declaring his passionate attachment and preference for this Shulamite. But her bearing is firm, independent, and something more. She has placed her affection on one whose love is to her a vital need.

“The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one,

And the light of a whole life dies

When love is done.”