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GRACE FOR A CHILD

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

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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