I never knew him in life but, perhaps in death we shall meet...
This is a quotation from John Donne (1572-1631). It appears in Devotions Upon
Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII:
"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...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: but how much more me, who am brought so near the
door by this sickness....No man is an island, entire of itself...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."
RIP Glynn!
alf