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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Surgeons must be very careful


              1Surgeons must be very careful
              2When they take the knife!
              3Underneath their fine incisions
              4Stirs the Culprit--Life!

Notes

1] 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 ROBA).


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
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Original text: Poems (1890-1896) by Emily Dickinson: A Facsimile Reproduction of the Original Volumes Issued in 1890, 1891, and 1896, with an Introduction by George Monteiro (Gainesville, Florida: Scholars' Facsimiles).
First publication date: 1891
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1997.
Recent editing: 2:2002/6/7

Composition date: 1859
Rhyme: abcb


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