A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick






256. GRACE FOR A CHILD

     Here, a little child, I stand,
     Heaving up my either hand:
     Cold as paddocks though they be,
     Here I lift them up to thee,
     For a benison to fall
     On our meat, and on us all.
     Amen.

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