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Custer and other poems
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919)
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Custer and other poems
18
EARTHLY PRIDE.
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.
Custer and other poems