ORIGINAL POETRY.
BEAUTY. Beauty’s deceitful, ’tis often a shield, Hiding vileness and virtues decay, To-day it is fresh as the grass of the field, To morrow it fadeth away.
A heart pure and faithful too frequently kneels To beauty disfigured by sin, For the face of an angel too often conceals The heart of a demon within.
The mouth may be sweet, the complexion be fair, Cheeks rosy, eyes fawn-like and bright, But, oh ! how often does Satan appear In the form of an angel of light.
Each movement may teem with refinement rmd grace, The lips be adorned with a smile, But though sweet the expression and lovely the face, The heart may be poisoned and vile.
The only true beauty is that of the heart, Where faith and true feeling abide ; And though lovely the form, it must horror impart, If governed by falsehood and pride.
Without holiness woman, no matter how fair, Is no more than a flower-decked clod, But the humblest and plainest that liveth in prayer Is arrayed in the beauty of God. E. S. Manx.
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Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 153, 11 June 1879, Page 3
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