Poem of the Week: For Hire

FOR HIRE

by Morris Rosenfeld 

(translated by Rose Pastor Stokes and Helena Frank)

Work with might and main,
  Or with hand and heart,
Work with soul and brain,
  Or with holy art,
Thread, or genius’ fire—

  Make a vest, or verse—
 If ’tis done for hire,
  It is done the worse.

(1910?)

from:

Songs of Labor and Other Poems