E. Pauline Johnson,
Flint and Feather (1914)—Part III. Other Poems…
(1914)
“ But not for me the Royal Pearls to bind about my hair, "Pearls were too passionless," you said, for one like me to wear, I must have all the splendour, all the jewels warm as wine, But pearls so pale and cold were meant for other flesh than mine. ”
