I stepped from plank to plank <br /> So slow and cautiously; <br />The stars about my head I felt, <br /> About my feet the sea. <br /> <br />I knew not but the next <br /> Would be my final inch,-- <br />This gave me that precarious gait <br /> Some call experience.<br /><br />Emily Dickinson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-stepped-from-plank-to-plank/
