Experience

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

ISTEPPED 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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