I Never Lost as Much but Twice

Emily Dickinson(1830–1886)

Poems by Emily Dickinson, 1890

I never lost as much but twice,And that was in the sod;Twice have I stood a beggarBefore the door of God!

Angels, twice descending,Reimbursed my store.Burglar, banker, father,I am poor once more!

From Poems by Emily Dickinson (1890), via the English Wikisource transcription.

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