Experience

Emily Dickinson

Emily Dickinson portrait

1830 to 1886

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I stepped from plank to plank
  So slow and cautiously;
The stars about my head I felt,
  About my feet the sea.

I knew not but the next
  Would be my final inch, —
This gave me that precarious gait
  Some call experience.

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