One step backward taken

Not only sands and gravelsWere once more on their travelsBut gulping muddy gallonsGreat boulders off their balanceBumped heads together dullyAnd started down the gully.Whole capes caked off in slices.I felt my standpoint shakenIn the universal crisis.But with one step backward takenI 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