For Whom the Bell Tolls

I've included Donne here before and no doubt will again.  As a follow to the 3/14 post, there follows a link to Donne's meditation XVII.  This was the one that Hemingway helped to re-popularize by using a line of it as the title of one of his novels.   


Beyond that, this is one of the most beautiful things I've ever read.  Rather than re-post it directly here, I've included a link that contains some hyper-link cross references of language forms and usage that will likely be obscure.  Speaking first to myself, we must never lose sight of how much we need and support each other and of how much we need to support each other.  In the case of the body of Christ, this is even more acute (Eph. 4:15-16).  God bless.


Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris.
Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die.

Meditation XVII