"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, then you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial's hire,
only to lear, dismayed,
that any wage I had asked of life,
life would have
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