Lost Faith

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

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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