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Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems

Part One: Life 136. I stepped from plank to plank

EXPERIENCE.


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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