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Earthly Pride
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
How baseless is the mightiest earthly pride,
The diamond is but charcoal purified,
The lordliest pearl that decks a monarch's breast
is but an insect's sepulchre at best.
Source:
Custer And Other PoemsCopyright 1896
W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago
