Show A mans prayer pray e r teach me that 60 minutes make an o h hour or 16 ounces make one pound 0 and nd cents one dollar help me to 0 live so BO that I 1 lie fie down at night with itha a clear c conscience ciance without a gun under my mv pillow and ba tinted by the faces of those whom I 1 have brought pain grant I 1 beseech thee that I 1 may earn ry gry meal ticket on the square and in doing so that I 1 may not stick my staff where it does not belong deafen me to the jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirts blind roe me to the faults 0 the other fellow but reveal my own guide me so that each night when I 1 look across the dinner table at my wife who has been a blessing to me I 1 will have nothing to conceal keep me young enough to laugh with my children and lose myself in play and then when comes the smell gmell of flowers sad and the tread of soft steps and the crushing of the haigg hearses wheels down in front of my place may the cere ceremony moril be short and the epitaph simple here lies liei a man american pressman |