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English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

Robert Herrick

207. A Child’s Grace

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.