Versos English Cotton Mather The Child at his Food

English poem

The Child at his Food

by (1663–1728)

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At Eating, thus I ever shou'd Devout and Thankful be; My God, I Bless thee for my Food; Let it be Bless'd to me. A Child, that when he goes to Eat, Thinks not of GOD at all, Is like the Bruits, which at their Meat On God do never call.