Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1856-11-13
NO.. 46.

not consist merely in what is called pretty
face. An old lyric writer of the seventeenth
century thus apostrophizes it: =
.There is garden in her face,
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly Paradise is that place,
Wherein oil pleasant fruits do flow;
These cherries grow, that none may buy
Till cherry ripe! themselves do cry.
'These cherries fairly do enclose
OF orient pearl double row.
Which when her lovely laughter shows,
They look like rosebuds filed with snow;
Yet these no peer, no prince, may buy,
Till cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
''IIer eyes, like angels, watch them still;
-- Her brow,, like bonded bows, do stand,
Threatening, with piercing frowns, to kill
All that approach with eyes or hand
Those sacred cherries to come nigh,
Till CHERRY ripen themselves do cry"
"Women are the poetry Of the world, in
the same sense as the stars are the poetry Of
heaven. Clear, light giving, harmonious,
they are the terrestrial planets that rule the
QeStlnleS OI MANKIND. "
81 saw her. upon nearer view,
spirit yet woman, too,
Her household motions light and free,
And steps of virgin liberty;
countenance in which did meet
Sweet records, promises as sweet,
A creatur- not too bright or good q
For human natures daily food
For transient sorrows, simple wiles,
G;,oou faor onIon onoi1oc -
Wordsworth's charming portraiture of
womanly sweetness is worthy alike of the
subject and the writer; it is doubtless IA
miliar to the reader.
Another pen has dilatcd upon it in prose,
as followeth:
"Those who are accustomed to enlighten-
ed views of female beauty we'll know that
there are different kinds of personal beauty,
among which that of form and coloring hold
a very inferior rank.
"There is beauty of expression for in-.
stance of sweetness, Of nobility, of intellec-
tual refinement, of feeling, of ar rimation, of
meekness, of resignation, and many other
kinds of beauty which may be allied to the
plainest features, and ye. may remain to
give pleasure long after the blooming cheek
has faded, and silver gray has mingled with
the hair. And how far more powerful in
their influence upon others, are some of those
kinds of beauty. For, after all, beauty de.
pends more upon the movement of the face.
than upon the form of features when at rest;
and thus, countenance habitually under
the influence of amaible feelings, acquires
beauty of the highest order, from the fire.
quency with which such feelings are the
originating causes of the movement or ex-
pressions which stamp their character upon
it. Who has not waited for the first open
ing of the lips of a celebrated belle, to see
whether her claims would be supported by
sthe mind, the music breathing from her
face? !? and who has not occasionally turned
away repelled by the utter blank which the
simple movement of the mouth in speaking
or smiling has revealed?
"The language of poetry describes the
loud laugh as indicative of the vulgar mind;
and certainly there are expressions, convey
ed through the medium of smile, which
need not Lavater to inform us that refine
ment of feeling or elevation of soul, haslit-
tie to do with the fair counteuance on which
they are impressed. On the other hand,
there are plain women sometimes met in 30
ciety, every movement of whose features is
instinct with intelligence; who, from the
genuine heart,warm smiles which play about
the mouth, the sweetly modulated voice,
and the lighting up of an eye, that looks as
if.it could comprehend the universe, becomes
perfectly beautiful to those who live with
them and love them. Before such preten-
sons as these, how soon does the pink-and-
white of q merely pretty face vanish to moth
ing"
Among the many tributes to beauty is an
old epigram, that may be new to some. 1t
runs as follows:
"The worlds prison. sad gloomy den,
Whose walls are the heavens to common;
The jailor is Sin, and the prisoners men,
And the fetters are nothing but women"
Fontenelle thus daintily compliments the
sex when he compares women and clocks
the latter serve to point out the hours, the
former to make US forget them.
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