title: Truth Laced with Grace: 31 Purpose Driven Devotions for Women (Volume 1)
author: Mrs Charis Rooks
description: Charis Rooks is a proud wife, mother, and grandmother who loves spending time with her family when she is not working to empower other women. As an accomplished author, certified life coach, speaker, and retreat/workshop facilitator for women, Charis knows what it means to be dedicated. She is the Editor and Chief as well as CEO of Inspired Grace Media Productions and founder of Divorce Recovery Advocates for Women. Charis is also the author of "The 30 Day Life after Divorce Prayer Challenge" and "Gods Rarest Diamonds". Learn more about Charis and her work at www.draw4women.com.
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  EPISTLE II: TO A LADY  
    
  
  
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  # EPISTLE II: TO A LADY
  
  
  ### Alexander Pope
  
  
  
  
  
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  Of the Characters of Women
  
    
    
  
  
  NOTHING so true as what you once let fall,  
  
  
  "Most Women have no Characters at all."  
  
  
  Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear,  
  
  
  And best distinguish'd by black, brown, or fair.  
    
  
  
  How many pictures of one Nymph we view,  
  
  
  All how unlike each other, all how true!  
  
  
  Arcadia's Countess, here, in ermin'd pride,  
  
  
  Is, there, Pastora by a fountain side.  
  
  
  Here Fannia, leering on her own good man,  
  
  
  And there, a naked Leda with a Swan.  
  
  
  Let then the Fair one beautifully cry,  
  
  
  In Magdalen's loose hair and lifted eye,  
  
  
  Or drest in smiles of sweet Cecilia shine,  
  
  
  With simpering Angels, Palms, and Harps divine;  
  
  
  Whether the Charmer sinner it, o