Thursday, January 8, 2015

NUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS.


Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

John Donne: Meditation XVII

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were;  any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

Full text of Meditation XVII


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