Show HERE LIES AN HONEST M MAN AN belh beich nie me that sixty minutes make oiw hour sixteen ounces one pound and one hundred cents centek one dollar help me to live so that I 1 can lie down at night with ith a clear conscience without a gun under my anil and b the faces of to whom I 1 have brought pain grunt I 1 beseech rhee that I 1 may earn m meal ticket on the square nud in doing thereof that I 1 may not I 1 stick to the gaff where it does not belong i deafen nie me to the jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirts blind me to tile the faults of the other tellow tello but reveal to me mine own gulde guide me so that each night when VI look across the dinner table at my wife who has haa been a blessing to me I 1 will have nothing to conceal keep me young enough to laugh with my children and to loe myself in their play and when comes the smell of flowers I and the tread of soft steps and the crushing of the hearse s wheels in the gravel out in front of my place make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple here lies ies an honest man |