sea foam

The waves had cast on the shore these sad relics, covered with sand and sea-foam.

The sea-foam crystallizes at her touch into precious stones, of whiteness as dazzling as that of her body.

She was transformed into something seductive and subtle—something in woman's flesh as ethereal as sea-foam and as vivid as flame.

It comes to us without complexion or flavor,—born of the sea-foam, like Aphrodite, but colorless as pallida Mors herself.