Robert Herrick (1591-1674). A Child's Grace. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

A Child’s Grace

By Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


HERE a little child I stand
Heaving up my either hand;
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Yet I lift them up to Thee,
For a benison to fall	5
On our meat and on us all. Amen.