by
Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886)
Surgeons must be very careful
Language: English
Available translation(s): FRE GER
Surgeons must be very careful
When they take the knife!
Underneath their fine incisions
Stirs the culprit, - Life!
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- FRE French (Français) (Guy Laffaille) , copyright © 2017, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- GER German (Deutsch) (Bertram Kottmann) , copyright © 2018, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Höchst bedacht sollten Chirurgen
Language: German (Deutsch)  after the English
Höchst bedacht sollten Chirurgen
sich ans Werk begeben,
regt sich unter ihren Schnitten
doch der Täter, - Leben!
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This text was added to the website: 2018-07-23
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