One Step Backward Taken

Robert FrostRobert Frost26 Mar 1874 – 29 Jan 1963

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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.
Robert Frost
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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States.

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