by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)
Here a little child I stand
Language: English
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.
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Text Authorship:
- by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), title 1: "Grace for a Child", title 2: "A Child's Grace" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Fritz Bennicke Hart (1874 - 1949), "A grace for a child", op. 53 (Twenty-Five Songs in Five Sets of Five Each: Set IV) no. 4 (1922) [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Mervyn, Lord Horder, the Second Baron of Ashford (1910 - 1998), "A child's grace" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by John Theodore Livingston Raynor (1909 - 1970), "A Child's Grace", op. 609 (1962) [sung text not yet checked]
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website: 2009-10-26
Line count: 6
Word count: 37