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BEAUTY IS A BLOSSOM.
Maiden, there is fomething too,
Woman's Beauty ne'er defied,
Though as rich in charms as you,
And as full of youthful pride.
You have but to look at me,
And you may that fomething fee,
That can fteal away each grace,
And in little time deface,
Whatfoever be your care,
All that makes you now fo fair.
Time ! it is, whofe ftealthy wing
Throws on all alike its made,
Fades the bloom of ev'ry thing,
Howfoever fair
Time ! though
'twas made !
it fo foftly treads,
Silent ruin round us fpreads ;
And as Age has done by me,
If you live, you'll furely fee
Beauty J
s but an idle boaft,
Your's to-day ; to-morrow loft !
But, there is a Beauty yet,
Far more lafting in the wear ;
That which Virtue doth beget,
Fadelefs bright beyond compare :
Make that Beauty your's, fair maid;
Time o'er that can caft no made;
And when wrinkled that fair brow,
'Twill be fairer far than now,
With a Beauty that mall gain
Lafting Love in God's domain.
As for Man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone :
more. Psalm ciii. 15, 16.
PRETTINESS DIES QUICKLY.
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