I stepped from Plank to Plank
A slow and cautious way
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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Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 875. I stepped from Plank to Plank
Volume: Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Year: Published/Written in 1955
Poem of the Day: May 13 2006
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