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Poem in the 1890 First Series, identified here by its opening line

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Repeated bereavement, death, spiritual poverty, memory and direct address toward God.

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

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Two deaths are remembered as losses so severe that the speaker figures herself as spiritually impoverished and dependent before God.

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Poem in Poems: First Series (1890), represented by its opening line for source disambiguation; Project Gutenberg #12242. Its theological language belongs to the lyric speaker.

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