ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD.
by 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.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 202.


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