104
What is beauty?
'Tis the stainless soul within
That outshines the fairest skin.
—Sir A. Hunt.
105
FRAGILE IS BEAUTY.
Fragile is beauty: with advancing years
'Tis less and less, and, last, it disappears.
Your hair too, fair one, will turn grey and thin;
And wrinkles furrow that now rounded skin;
Then brace the mind and thus beauty fortify,
The mind alone is yours, until you die.
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Beauty without kindness dies unenjoyed and undelighting.