Read the poem: “Prayer”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
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Prayer

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Prayer is the little implement

Through which men reach

Where presence is denied them.

They fling their speech

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By means of it in God’s ear;

If then He hear,

This sums the apparatus

Comprised in prayer.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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