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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
by lordleft 4y ago
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.
- wahern 4y agoI'd never read the whole excerpt.[1] It's much more communitarian than the commonly recited phrase, "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee", which seems self-centered in isolation, emphasizing one's own mortality rather than what one loses when someone else dies. Of course, "No man is an island" is also commonly recited and can stand alone, but I hadn't known it was from the same paragraph. [1] I originally wrote poem but it's excerpted from a larger work of prose, Devotions, chapter XVII: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23772/23772-h/23772-h.htm#Page_107 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23772/23772-h/23772-h.htm#Pa... See also https://interestingliterature.com/2021/08/never-send-for-whom-the-bell-tolls-it-tolls-for-thee-meaning-analysis/ https://interestingliterature.com/2021/08/never-send-for-who...
- tengwar2 4y agoA Hymn to God the Father Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun, Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. Wilt thou forgive that sin which I have won Others to sin, and made my sin their door? Wilt thou forgive that sin which I did shun A year or two, but wallow'd in, a score? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. I have a sin of fear, that when I have spun My last thread, I shall perish on the shore; But swear by thyself, that at my death thy Son Shall shine as he shines now, and heretofore; And, having done that, thou hast done; I fear no more. I love the devout pun between "done" and "Donne" here.