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Emily Dickinson (1830–86). Complete Poems. 1924.

Part One: Life

CXXXVI

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.