MENTAL BEAUTY. 49 
CLEMATIS. 
Clematis Virginica. 
Language — MENTAL BEAUTY. 
What’s female beauty but an ail* divine, 
Through which the mind’s all gentle graces shine ? 
They, like the sun, irradiate all between; 
The body charms because the soul 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. 
Youifa. 
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. 
Geokqk Hill. 
Ah ! the cheek and eye will fade ! 
Beauty owns immortal grace ; 
Throned she sits within the soul; 
There is beauty’s dwelling-place. 
Miss Vandenhcutf. 
