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in your train, let virtue, modesty, and sweet
ness be the only lures you make use of to en-
snare:


You may then, perhaps, by your good
qualities, retain the heart which was at
first captive to your beauties; and when
time has robbed you OF the graces and the
innocent cheerfuness of youth, secure
sincere and tender friend to console you in
the hours of affliction, and watch over you
when deprived of those charms that first
made him solicitous to obtain your love.


Repinc not, my young readers, though
your virtues be concealed in homely form.
If you have secured the virtues of the mind,
YOU need not envy others the beauties of the
face. And ye, who are decorated with eve
ry outward grace, be not vain OF such fad
ing externals, but tremble, least they should
tempt the designing to lead you into error
Had you less bcautious been, you'd known less
care:


Ladies are happiest moderately fair.
| Neglect not, then, in the giddy hours Of
youth to make your mind a fit companion
! Tor the most lovely form. Personal charms
NAV please for a moment; but the more
lasting beauties of an improved understand
I ing, and intelligent mind, can never tire.
! We are soon weary of looking at picture,
I though executed in a mastery style; and the
woman who has only beauty to recommend
her, has but little chance OF meeting lover
who will not grow Indifferent to mere por-
trait, particularly when its colors are faded
by the subduing hand Of time. Then it is
that modcsty and sweetness Of temper are
to be particularly observed; and the loss oi
beauty will not be regretted even ny the
man it first made your captive.


See, lovely fair, yon blushing rose;
All halthc beauty as it blows


Vain Of her charms, she courts the sun,


And soon her gaudy race is run.


Observe, in yonder pcnsive dale,


The whte-robcd lily of the vale;


Pure emblem of the spoless maid,


Adorn'd with flow'rs that cannot fade.


Virtue, bright ornament of youth,


Sincerity, unblushng truth:


Through all life's seasons these Will please,


In all llife's storms secure hearts case.