Religion
A Child's Grace
From The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900)
Religion
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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Herrick, Robert. “A Child's Grace.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1142/.
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Herrick, Robert. “A Child's Grace.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1142/.
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