for whom the bell tolls

...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..


John Donne
Meditation 17


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