'No Man is an Island'
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 any manner of thy friends
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
1624
MEDITATION XVII
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
