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 Book
Custer And Other Poems
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright 1896
Published by W. B. Conkey Company, Chicago
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