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Earthly Pride

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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.




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