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MY WAGE.
I bargained with Life for a penny
And Life would pay no more
However I begged at evening
While I counted my scanty store
For Life is just an 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 asked of life
Life would have paid
Jesse B. Rittenhouse