Why Can't I Undo an Email Delete in Mail?

I'm running the latest version of Mountain Lion and my email is handled by Gmail IMAP through Apple's Mail.app.
If I accidentally delete an email in my inbox, there's no Undo available. The Undo command is grayed out in the Edit menu.
Why in the world can I not undo a delete in Mail??
Thanks for any help.

I can indeed find the email in the trash, but like a lot of people I use my inbox as a kind of to-do list, so there are emails in there that are two or three weeks old. That means that if I accidentally delete one such message and I don't know which one I've deleted (and this has happened several times), I have to look through thousands of emails (inluding deleted Spam) hoping to spot the one accidentally deleted. Not practical. But thanks for the suggestion.
Apple should just fix things so there's a working Undo command.

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