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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 1099 |
| 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). |
| SUBJECTS: | Life |
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