ANAGRAMS

Credit: Willard R. Espy in The Game of Words

Using the words STIPEND, TASTE, and PIECES and their anagrams, can you complete the following verse?

My _________'s low, my _________ is high,

A __________ with little to commend it;

Of __________, __________ few have I,

And what I have, I _________ _________.

HINT:

SPECIE is a word referring to coined money.

Answer:

STIPEND / TASTE

STATE

SPECIE / PIECES

SPEND IT