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XXXVI. Lost Faith.

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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