To offer brave assistance
To Lives that stand alone —
When One has failed to stop them —
Is Human — but Divine
To lend an Ample Sinew
Unto a Nameless Man —
Whose Homely Benediction
No other — stopped to earn —
To offer brave assistance
Analysis, meaning and summary of Emily Dickinson's poem To offer brave assistance
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