I thought I saw Deception in thine eyes a-shine—
Was it but her reflection imaged deep from mine?
“The Mirror” as is appears in Higginson’s Four-Leaf Clover (1901).
“The Mirror” as it appears in Higginson’s The Voice of April-Land and Other Poems (1903).
A draft of “The Mirror,” courtesy of the Ella Higginson Papers, Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, Heritage Resources, Western Washington University, Bellingham Washington.