The poem rapidly shows the source of such beauty: the woman's physical appearance combines "everything that's finest of dark and brilliant." This implies that beauty is a balance of opposing elements—darkness and brightness. Since darkness and brightness are relative terms, this means that women's beauty can never be fully expressed through one single attribute. It must include several fine qualities rather than just one or two defects. The poet also reveals that beauty is more than skin deep when he writes that "a heart as fair as her's is a heart of gold." In other words, looks can be deceiving. A beautiful soul goes with a beautiful body. Such a woman will always attract men's attention whether she wants to or not. Finally, the poet asserts that beauty is a gift from God when he writes "She is gowned in white as pure as snow/Her eyes like stars shine bright" (13). God created both men and women, but only women are beautiful. Men have bodies, but they cannot walk around looking pretty all the time. Only women have faces that can blush and tears that can fall. Only women have hearts that can feel love and pain. God gave us different roles so that we could fulfill different duties.