Living
Earthly Pride
From Custer, and Other Poems (1896)
Living
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.
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MLA
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Earthly Pride.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/193/.
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Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Earthly Pride.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/193/.
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