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Emily Dickinson · Poems

Poem 317 of 446 · Third Series: Life

Lost Faith

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To lose one's faith surpasses
The loss of an estate,
Because estates can be
Replenished, -- faith cannot.

Inherited with life,
Belief but once can be;
Annihilate a single clause,
And Being's beggary.

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