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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 80. Prayer is the little implement

PRAYER.


Prayer is the little implement

Through which men reach

Where presence is denied them.

They fling their speech


By means of it in God's ear;

If then He hear,

This sums the apparatus

Comprised in prayer.

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