One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.—Psalm xxvii. 4.
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth.—Psalm xxxix. 11.
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.—Proverbs, xxxi. 30.
I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
He hath made every thing beautiful in his time.—Ecclesiastes, iii. 10, 11.
Oh, what is Beauty’s power?
It flourishes and dies;
Will the cold earth its silence break.
To tell how soft, how smooth a cheek
Beneath its surface lies?