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Prayer is the little implement

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Prayer is the little implement by Emily Dickinson

 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 --

Form: Free verse

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