I'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 th

I'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...