Read the poem: “Experience”

by Emily Dickinson

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American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson
< < < Experiment to me
Faith is a fine invention > > >

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Experience

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I stepped from plank to plank

   So slow and cautiously;

The stars about my head I felt,

   About my feet the sea.

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I knew not but the next

   Would be my final inch, —

This gave me that precarious gait

   Some call experience.

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< < < Experiment to me
Faith is a fine invention > > >

American Literature – American Poetry – Emily Dickinson

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