This is the debt I pay <br /> Just for one riotous day, <br /> Years of regret and grief, <br /> Sorrow without relief. <br /> Pay it I will to the end -- <br /> Until the grave, my friend, <br /> Gives me a true release -- <br /> Gives me the clasp of peace. <br /> Slight was the thing I bought, <br /> Small was the debt I thought, <br /> Poor was the loan at best -- <br /> God! but the interest!<br /><br />Paul Laurence Dunbar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-debt/
