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Another Grace for a Child

by Robert Herrick, 1647

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.

Published in Noble Numbers
Tags: thanksgiving

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