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 —

Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem Prayer is the little implement

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