{"id":7913,"date":"2022-01-30T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=7913"},"modified":"2022-01-30T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:00:00","slug":"a-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/a-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From <\/em>The Tacoma Times, January 30, 1914<\/em><\/a>. By Berton Braley.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh, Master of the World of men
    And Ruler of Eternity,
Neither with voice nor flowing pen
    Have I asked many things from Thee;
I have not begged for wealth or fame
    With selfish prayers of little worth,
Nor have I called upon Thy name
    To smite my enemies to earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet now to Thee I raise my eyes
    And lift my voice for Thee to hear;
No rich and sordid gift I prize,
    No plethora of gold and gear;
Only this single boon I pray,
    That in a busy world and wide,
Whether my life be grave or gay,
    I may not grow self-satisfied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, till my final hour is spent,
    Until my work and play are through,
Lord, let me never be content
    With what I am or what I do;
Deliver me from smug conceit
    Which clogs the heart and mind in action\u2014
This is the prayer which I repeat,
    \u201cLord, guard me from self-satisfaction!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From The Tacoma Times, January 30, 1914. By Berton Braley. Oh, Master of the World of men    And Ruler of Eternity,Neither with voice nor flowing pen    Have I asked many things from Thee;I have not begged for wealth or fame    With selfish prayers of little worth,Nor have I called upon Thy name  […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-7913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-tacoma-times","tag-berton-braley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}