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Posted by Gearóid Mac Cuinneagáin
on:    11 May 2001

Another thing, if someone kills me, why is it a crime against society?
- Donn Earraigh

No Man Is An Island
John Donne

 

The Works of John Donne, vol III
edited by Henry Alford
London: John W. Parker, 1839

No man is an Island, intire of itselfe;
every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the sea, Europe is the less,
as well as if a Promontarie were, as well as if a Mannor of thyfriends
or of thine owne were; any man's death diminishes me
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know
for whom the bell tolls;
it tolls for thee.


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