Emily Dickinson – CXIX – TO lose one’s faith surpasses

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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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