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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nov. 5, 1850
to
Oct. 30, 1919
Other Works
The Old Wooden Cradle Memory's Garden Waiting Blind The Lost Land Surrender Now Upon the Sand The Traveled Man The Eternal Will A Suggestion The Lady Of Tears Unanswered Prayers False One Of These The World's Need Achievements A Twilight Thought In-Memoriam A Solar EclipseEarthly 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