Lost Faith

Emily Dickinson

1830 to 1886

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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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