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).
