Life Wages


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 a 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.

Napoleon Hill's book, "Think & Grow Rich" revised edition. 1960 by Ballantine Books - in Chapter 2, page 40

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