This is an extract from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions by the poet, John Donne, and contains the well-known caution, “therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” The text is taken from The Oxford Book of English Prose, Sir Arthur Quiller Couch (ed.), Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1958.

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