Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles; site smu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!smu!joe From: joe@smu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: Quote Question - (nf) Message-ID: <16400001@smu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 14:20:00 EDT Article-I.D.: smu.16400001 Posted: Wed Jun 27 14:20:00 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 30-Jun-84 02:39:29 EDT Lines: 16 Nf-ID: #N:smu:16400001:000:471 Nf-From: smu!joe Jun 27 13:20:00 1984 #N:smu:16400001:000:471 smu!joe Jun 27 13:20:00 1984 Who wrote the following lines: ``No man is an island'' ``Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee'' I am note sure I got them exactly correct. A friend asked me this yesterday, and we were surprised we couldn't remember. He thinks the were both written by the same guy. A poet friend of mine couldn't remember either, but thought it might be Emerson. I thought it could be Wordsworth, but couldn't find the lines anywhere. Joe Ramey ...!convex!smu!joe