15 NOVEMBER 1913, Page 33

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your correspondent, M.

Smith, asks for a pithy yet reverent "grace before meat." I wonder if she knows the following quaint verse of Herrick's, which I venture to send "Here, a little child, I stand,

Heaving up my either hand.

Cold as paddocks tho' they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall On our meat, and on us all.—Amen."

—I am, Sir, &c., S. V. ANNAND.

The King's School, Peterborough.