eokane@charm.UUCP (Evan Kane) (06/29/84)
I had several surprises on looking up this famous poem.
First that it came from a "Devotion" that is about
ten times longer and second that it wasn't written
in the form of a poem.Here is what I found.
No Man is an Iland
"No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; 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 lesse, as well
as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy
friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes
me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore
never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."
John Donne (1573-1631)
Submitted by Evan Kane.