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Show A PRAYER By Homer McKee "Teach me that CO minutes make an hour, 16 ounces one pound, and 100 cents one dollar. "Help me to live so that I can lie down at night with a clear conscience, without a gun under my pillow and unhaunted by the faces of those to whom I have brought pain. "Grant, I beseech Thee, that I may earn my meal ticket on the square, and in doing thereof that I may not stick the gaff where it does not belong. be-long. "Deafen me to the jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirts. "Blind me to the faults of the other fellow, but reveal to me my own. "Guide me so that each night when I look across the dinner table at my wife, who has been a blessing, to me, I shall have nothing to conceal. con-ceal. "Keep me young enough to laugh with my children and to lose myself in their play. "And then, when come the smell of flowers, and the tread of soft steps, and the crushing of the hearse's wheels in the gravel out in j front of my place, make the ceremony short and the epitaph simple: " 'HERE LIES A MAN.' " |