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Show 0 A MAN'S PRAYER "Teach mo that sixty minutes mako an hour, Blxtoon ounces ono pound, and ono hundred cents one dollar. "Teach mo to livo so that I can He down at night with a clear conscience, without a gun undor my pillow, and unbnunted by facos of those to whom I havo brought pain. "Grant that I may earn my meal, ticket on tho squnro and that In earning It I may not stick tho gaff whero it does not bolong. "Blind mo to tho faults of tho other fellows, but reveal to mo mino own. "Guldo me so that each night when I look across tho dinner tablo at my wlfo, who has boen a bleslsng to me, I will have nothing to concoal. "Keep me young enough to laugh with my children. "Ai)d whon comes tho smell of flowors, and tho tread of soft stops, and tho crunching of wheels out In front, mako tho coremony short and the epitaph slmplo, 'Hero lies a Man'." |