In Once Upon a Time in America (1984), a Sergio Leone film, Deborah Gelly (Elizabeth McGovern) recites Song of Songs to 'Noodles' (Robert DeNiro).
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In Once Upon a Time in America (1984), a Sergio Leone film, Deborah Gelly (Elizabeth McGovern) recites Song of Songs to 'Noodles' (Robert DeNiro).
- My beloved is white and ruddy.
- His skin is as the most fine gold.
- His cheeks are as a bed of spices.
- Even though he hasn't washed since last December.
- His eyes are as the eyes of doves.
- His body is as bright ivory.
- His legs are as pillars of marble.
- In pants so dirty they stand by themselves.
- He is altogether lovable.
- But he'll always be a two-bit punk.
- So he'll never be my beloved.
- What a shame.
Original lines
- 10 'My beloved is white and ruddy,
- pre-eminent above ten thousand.
- 11 His head is as the most fine gold,
- his locks are curled, and black as a raven.
- 12 His eyes are like doves beside the water-brooks;
- washed with milk, and fitly set.
- 13 His cheeks are as a bed of spices,
- as banks of sweet herbs;
- his lips are as lilies, dropping with flowing myrrh.
- 14 His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl;
- his body is as polished ivory
- overlaid with sapphires.
- 15 His legs are as pillars of marble,
- set upon sockets of fine gold;
- his aspect is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.
- 16 His mouth is most sweet;
- yea, he is altogether lovely.
- This is my beloved, and this is my friend,
- O daughters of Jerusalem.'
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