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The Value of Innocence in Girls.

Believe me, girls! to our lives

Only innocence can give dignity,

For a beautiful face

Does not provide the heart's goodness.

The roses of your cheeks wither,

Like violets, like carnations;

Only even with a pale face,

The value of innocence does not wither.

Alas — how many a girl without virtue

Withers in her youth,

When a beautiful face

Does not correspond to her heart.

In outward polish original: "Bildung." While this usually means education, in this context it refers to external social refinement or "cultivated" appearances. lies a lie,

Virtue alone ennobles one’s features:

One can only truly be beautiful to the noble

Through the cultivation of the soul original: "Seelenbildung." A key concept in 18th-century thought, referring to the internal moral and aesthetic development of a person's character..