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,

Here I lift them up to Thee,

For a benison to fall

On our meat and on us all. Amen.

 

 

Glossary:

Paddocks = frogs.

literature, poetry

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