All mankind is of one author, and is one volume;
when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into
a better language; and every chapter must be so translated: God employs several translators; some pieces
are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but
God’s hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our
scattered leaves again, for that library where every book shall lie open to one
another; as therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the
preacher only, but upon the congregation to come; so this bell calls us all… Therefore never send to know for whom the
bell tolls, it tolls for thee.
--John Donne,
Meditation XVII.
Nunc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris
In November we remember all souls...
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