Triune beauty is that of the
body, mind and soul; who can resist? Beauty of the soul may come in the most
distressing disguises, and the following quote tells of the spirit’s beauty
without that of body or mind, but still it captures us.
“And now there is beauty of
the spirit; the mind in its perfect flowering,
Fragrant, expanded into the
soul, full of love and blessed.
Go to some squalid couch,
some famishing death-bed of the poor;
He is shrunken, cadaverous,
diseased; -- there is here no beauty of body:
Never has he fed on
knowledge, nor drank at the steams of science,
He is of the common herd,
illiterate; -- there is here no beauty of reason:
But lo! His filming eye is
bright with love from heaven,’
In every look it beams with
praise, as worshipping with angels;
What honeycomb is hived upon
his lips, eloquent of gratitude and prayer,---
What triumph shrined serene
upon that clammy brow,
What glory flickering
transparent under those thin cheeks, ---
What beauty in his face: ---
Is it not the face of an angel?” Martin F. Tupper.
This beauty of spirit is what has kept me going back to the nursing homes, having seen it so many times.
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