No Man Is An Island - John Donne

[Larry Robinson]

No Man Is An Island


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