MENTAL BEAUTY. 
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CLEMATIS. 
Clematis Virginica. 
Language MENTAL BEAUTY. 
What's female beauty but an air divine, 
Through which the mind's all gentle graces shine ? 
They, like the sun, irradiate all between ; 
The body charms because the sotd is seen. 
Hence men are often captives of a face, 
They know not why, of no peculiar grace ; 
Some forms, though bright, no mortal man can bear 
Some, none resist, though not exceeding fair. 
Time has small power 
O'er features the mind moulds. Roses, where 
They once have bloomed, a fragrance leave behind ; 
And harmony will linger on the wind ; 
And suns continue to light up the air 
When set ; and music from the broken shrine 
Breathes, it is said, around whose altar stone 
His flower the votary has ceased to twine 
Types of the beauty that, when youth is gone. 
Breathes from the soul whose brightness mocks decline. 
Georok Hill. 
Ah ! the cheek and eye v:i\l fade/ 
Beauty owns immortal grace ; 
Throned she sits within the soul; 
There is beauty's dwelling-place. 
Miss Vaxdenhoff. 
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