Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-08-08
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Beauties Contrasted.

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through the beautiful and yerdant meadows
collecting ilowors to decorate tho walls ofthe
boauttnI and rustic iittio c6tta1c that stood
on tho hill There was something romantic
about this romantic lass that elected our kind
est feelings. She was handsome she was
young, and seemingly she was the very OBJ
ject to love. Then again VIC have seen the
oItage belle" with hor silken curls falling
lifelessly on her shoulders, and hor beautiful
azure eyes that seemed to speak 40 many chap
ters of melancholy poetry, and whispers, on
tho zephyrs of innocence, the sweet melodies
of loye. And here again our heart must res-
pond to this captivating beauty, and, q az
prose is too cold and formal" we will do so
in poetry:
"J love thoc for thy trcs$os bright
OF wavy silkcn hair,
Aud for the look of happiness
Thy features ever wear.
al love thee for thy speaking eye
OF calm doep thoughtful blue,
love thee for thy coral lip, @
Thyichce of rosy hue.
And again we have seen the tall slender
npaidon oftwenty-fve summers with her ra-
ven trOsses aud piercing dark eye, that sent
thrill to my heart. She was handsome. ycsl
she was noble; and We must respond to this
call again on our finer feelings in the same
sweet language of poetry:
Il love thee for thy graceful form,
So slender and so light
love thee for thy snowy neck,
TiIy hands 80 small and whito.
but most Hove thee for tho heart,
Thatis so good and true,
'Tis better than the softest curls,
Or eyes of brightest blue.
"Tis better than tho faircst form,
The rosiest cheek or mouth,
For tits the soul Of innocence
The we'll of love and truth"
This lady possessed that beauty which time
never crases-.hc beauty of mind and heart.
1t shines brightly in this world and forbcars
not its briliancy in the world to come. We
would not for anything cay that beauty of
face and figure was an evil in this world, for
there is nothing that creates greater excite
mont in tho locality 'ofour watch pocket than
that OF handsome lady. But we believe it
is generally admitted that those possessing
the greatest share of feminine beauty are the
most vain. We often find those who have
never created any sensation in society to pos
scSs tho most rcli and substantial beauty
The beauty of face and figure we consider ns
momcntary or transitory thing. It's liable
to vanish like the effect of a midnight dream.
Tho autumn frost withers and blasts the ros-
es, and soon its sweet fragrance is lost, and
its leaves are lying proiniscuously on the
ground, and, there i, nothing left to show
whore it had once dy'eit, but the crooked
thorny old bush that bare it, just so with
tho beauty of face. and figure. How often is
it thecase that wo see her whom we eonco know
to be handsome, perfectly dis6gured by dis
easo. Those checks, that were once so ROSY.
are now sallow and sunken, and perhaps pit
ted with smallpox Those silkcn tresses that.
once decorated her brow have all disappears
ed. Those teeth, that once shone so white
through her ruby lips, by salvation hayeall
decayed and her lips are all thin and color
loss. Such pictures of pity have often come
undcr our personal observation. But, dear
reader, how different it is with one who pos
sesscs not the beauty of face and figure, but
tho beauty of mind and heart. The ravages
OF disease does not dctract one mito from her
beauty-7-it shines on like tho iamp i'm the
prison cell, by day as we'll as by night Iic
who gots companion, who possesses this boau-
ty is greatly blcssod. If he Ia confined to
the sick room, he ever finds her there TO
soothe his aching brow. If hcis in the deco
est adyersity, ne Hnds ne has q coinpaTTiii,;s.
who can console him in his most troubled
hours, and, if need bo, point out n way for
him TO escape from the clutches of adyersity
aud penury. Andhc finds hiscliIlren, grow,
ing up IN the right way Before he can, sec
that the child can understand tho teachihgsi
he would give it, he finds that the mother has,
taken hold ot TIE plant, and started itin the
way it should grow. And you find those chill
dren growing up as ornaments to tho commu-.
nifty IN which they live, and ere long you find
them filing the first stations in stcieK You
not only see tho effect on hor children, 1,ut on
her ~ ehitdren,s shildren,and on her neighbors
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