Digest - Poems

AUTHOR:
Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1869�1948)

QUOTATION:
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial's hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.

ATTRIBUTION:
JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE, "My Wage," The Door of Dreams, p. 25 (1918).