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 THE OLD WIVES' PRAYER by Robert Herrick 
						Holy-Rood, come forth and shieldUs i' th' city and the field;
 Safely guard us, now and aye,
 From the blast that burns by day;
 And those sounds that us affright
 In the dead of dampish night;
 Drive all hurtful fiends us fro,
 By the time the cocks first crow.
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