Get out the microscope, because we’re going through this poem line-by-line.
Lines 67-72
"I wish that he were come to me,
For he will come," she said.
"Have I not pray'd in Heaven?—on earth,
Lord, Lord, has he not pray'd?
Are not two prayers a perfect strength?
And shall I feel afraid?"
- Finally—two stanzas after we're told she's going to talk, the damozel finally says a few words.
- The gist of what she says reinforces her connection with the Earth-bound first-person speaker.
- From her perch up in heaven, she wishes for this guy to come to her. Then she seems sure that "he will come" (68).
- How can she be so sure? Well, she's been praying for that very same thing here in heaven, and he's been doing the same thing back on Earth.
- The combined strength of those two prayers makes, in the eyes of this young woman, for "a perfect strength" (71).
- She's totally not afraid. Everything's going to work out for her. Um…right?