Show A MANS PRAYER teach me that sixty minutes male an hour sixteen ounces one pound and one hundred cents one dollar help me to live sa so that I 1 can lie down at night with a clear conscience without a gun under my pillow and by the faces of those to whom I 1 have brought pain grant I 1 beseech thee that I 1 may earp earn my meal ticket on the square and in doing so may I 1 not stick the gaff where it does not belong deafen me to the jingle of tainted money and the rustle of unholy skirts blind me to the faults or toe the otlien fellow but reveal to me 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 to lose myself in their play and then when comes the smell of flowers and the tread of soft steps and the crushing of the hearses wheels in the gravel out in front of 0 my place make the ceremony short and tile the epitaph simple here lies a man |