My Wage by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

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I bargained with Life for a penny

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And Life would pay no more,

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However I begged at evening

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When I counted my scanty store;

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For Life is a just employer,

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He gives you what you ask,

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But once you have set the wages,

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Why, you must bear the task

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I worked for a menial’s hire,

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Only to learn, dismayed,

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That any wage I had asked for Life,

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Life would have paid.