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

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 willingly paid”

― Jessie B. Rittenhouse