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Grace For A Child: Poem by Robert Herrick

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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.

Analysis of this poem
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