Poems ✍️
  13.12.2025
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Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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 sepulchr


  vanity mortality humility impermanence

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