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POEMS.

LIII. EXPERIENCE.

T 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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