Accidentally trashed a dock icon

I accidentally trashed the iPod icon that was in the home page dock, at the bottom of the home screen. Anyone know how to get it back? THANKS!

cshorne wrote:
Apple needs to work this out so that the built in app icons can't be deleted from the screen... or at least are retrievable from somewhere.
They did.
1) You canNOT delete the predefined apps.
2) In the restrictions, you can disable the deletion of ALL apps, third party.
People who buy iPhones need to learn how to actually use their phone, and LOOK FOR the settings that they complain that Apple needs to implement, before complaining.
You can't delete them, such as the posts above.
How many pages do you have? If you have 11 pages, it's possible it got pushed into the invisible world, 12 pages and beyond, and you could retrieve it in iTunes.
I know that to relocate Safari, you can go into the Settings > General > Restrictions, then disable Safari, then re-enable it, and it should show up on the next page with a free space, 2nd page and above.
As for the iPod, it can't be deleted... :-|
It's there...somewhere...

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