A New Year's Prayer

by Sydney Fowler

DURRANT'S PRESS CUTTINGS,
St. Andrew's House, 32 to 34 Holborn Viaduct,
and 3 St. Andrew Street, Holborn Circus., E.C.1.
Telephone CITY 4963

G. K. Weekly
20 & 21 Essex Street, Strand, W.C.2.
Cutting from issue dated 16JAN1932

A New Year's Prayer

LORD, Thine elect before Thy throne
Kneel, as we always do
On New Year's Day, to plead Thy grace
For 1932.

Lord, in Thine ample space above,

We creatures cramped below
Implore that through Thy generous love
Rich floods of petrol flow.

Grant chauffeurs, petrol, tyres and pumps,

With by-pass roads galore,
And though the human birth-rate slumps
May car statistics soar.

May speed-boats still the oceans cleave

As Airplanes cleave the air,
And grant the maimed pedestrians leave
Our bloody highways bare.

Though waste each frugal instinct jars,

Lord, we have sense to see
Children enough to drive the cars
Born by Thy will must be.

But though young chauffeurs must be grown

For 1952,
We offer humbly at Thy throne
The thought that Japs would do.

Lord, as we chase the seasons round,

Be Thou our sure defence.
But let no childrens laughter sound,
For children mean expense.

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The End


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