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
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LORD, Thine elect before Thy throne
- Kneel, as we always do
- For 1932.
Lord, in Thine ample space above,
- We creatures cramped below
- Rich floods of petrol flow.
Grant chauffeurs, petrol, tyres and pumps,
- With by-pass roads galore,
- May car statistics soar.
May speed-boats still the oceans cleave
- As Airplanes cleave the air,
- Our bloody highways bare.
Though waste each frugal instinct jars,
- Lord, we have sense to see
- Born by Thy will must be.
But though young chauffeurs must be grown
- For 1952,
- The thought that Japs would do.
Lord, as we chase the seasons round,
- Be Thou our sure defence.
- For children mean expense.
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The End