“Thou art of Him,” she said again, “aye, and I be of Him, and ye be of Him, and He be all and of all.”
In this prayer, where she says “Teach me, O God, no word to pray,” it is evident from her other prayers that she uses the word pray in the sense of “to beg.” Her prayers are merely expressions of love and gratitude.
She herself interprets the line, “Teach me, O God, to waste not word,” in this verse:
Speak ye a true tongue,
Or waste ye with words the Soul’s song?
A damning evidence is with wasted words;
For need I prate to yonder star
When hunger fills the world wherein I dwell?
Cast I a glance so precious as His
Which wakes at every dawn?