Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

CXIX

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.