Surgeons must be very careful

Surgeons must be very careful    When they take the knife!    Underneath their fine incisions    Stirs the Culprit—Life!

Composition Date: ca. 1859.

Form: abcb1.

For the existing manuscript version of poem 108, see The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, edited by R.

W.

Franklin in two volumes (Cambridge,

Mass., and London:

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1981:

I, 122; fascicle 7;

PS 1541 A1 1981

BA).