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OF COURSE - I PRAYED by EMILY DICKINSON

Poet Analysis

Last Line: Than this smart Misery
Subject(s): PRAYER;
Of Course - I prayed -
And did God Care?
He cared as much as on the Air
A Bird - had stamped her foot -
And cried "Give Me" -
My Reason - Life -
I had not had - but for Yourself -
'Twere better Charity
To leave me in the Atom's Tomb -
Merry, and Nought, and gay, and numb -
Than this smart Misery.


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