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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

A Child’s Grace

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

HERE a little child I stand

Heaving up my either hand;

Cold as paddocks though they be,

Yet I lift them up to Thee,

For a benison to fall

On our meat and on us all.Amen.