Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions

Mozart: Requiem

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
Meditation XVII