Volume 4, Number 1 - Fall 1970
Dr. R. M. Good, President emeritus School of the Ozarks, says I do not know who wrote this poem which I read and memorized long ago;
I bargained with life for a penny
And life would pay me no more
Though I begged at every tide
When I counted my scanty store
For life is a just employer
And will pay you what you ask
But when you have set the wages
Then you must bear the task
I worked for a menial's hire
Only to find dismayed
Whatever I had asked of life
Life would have gladly paid.
Dr. Good asks "What are we bargaining for in this life?"
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