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| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
| Robert Herrick. 1591–1674 |
| 271. A Child's Grace |
| 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. |
| GLOSS: paddocks] frogs. |
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