A Child's Grace
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.
DayPoems Poem No. 271
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/271.html">A Child's Grace by Robert Herrick</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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