Not only sands and gravels <br />Were once more on their travels, <br />But gulping muddy gallons <br />Great boulders off their balance <br />Bumped heads together dully <br />And started down the gully. <br />Whole capes caked off in slices. <br />I felt my standpoint shaken <br />In the universal crisis. <br />But with one step backward taken <br />I saved myself from going. <br />A world torn loose went by me. <br />Then the rain stopped and the blowing, <br />And the sun came out to dry me.<br /><br />Robert Frost<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-step-backward-taken/
