207. A Child's Grace. Robert Herrick. 1909-14. English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray. The Harvard Classics

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

207. A Child’s Grace

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


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	5
On our meat and on us all. Amen.