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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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