FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
(from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions)

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 c.1571-1631 ~