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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

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 our all.Amen.