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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 169 of 446 · Second Series: Life

Prayer

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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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