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From: eokane@charm.UUCP (Evan Kane)
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Subject: No man is an Iland
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 07:47:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 07:47:26 1984
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          I had several surprises on looking up this famous poem.
          First that it came from a "Devotion" that is about
          ten times longer and second that it wasn't written
          in the form of a poem.Here is what I found.

                    No Man is an Iland

          
          "No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a
          peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod
          bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well
          as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy
          friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes
          me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore
          never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
          It tolls for thee."
          
                 John Donne (1573-1631)
          
          Submitted by Evan Kane.