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