“The fairest face that ever yet
Look'd in a wave as in a glass”

—  Joaquin Miller

IV, p. 24.
The Ship in the Desert (1875)
Context: p>These be but men. We may forget
The wild sea-king, the tawny brave,
The frowning wold, the woody shore,
The tall-built, sunburnt men of Mars...But what and who was she, the fair?
The fairest face that ever yet
Look'd in a wave as in a glass;
That look'd as look the still, far stars,
So woman-like, into the wave
To contemplate their beauty there,
Yet look as looking anywhere?</p

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