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Custer and other poems
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler (1850-1919)
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The World's Need.
TRANSFORMATION.
EARTHLY PRIDE.
A MAIDEN TO HER MIRROR.
THE KETTLE.
THE TRYST.
THE DUEL.
THE OLD WOODEN CRADLE.
THE TRAVELED MAN.
THE TULIP BED AT GREELEY SQUARE.
MUSIC IN THE FLAT.
THE HAMMOCK'S COMPLAINT.
PREACHING VS. PRACTICE.
AN OLD MAN TO HIS SLEEPING YOUNG BRIDE.
TWO NIGHTS.
CUSTER.
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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
