DesDownunder Posted September 13, 2006 Report Share Posted September 13, 2006 For Whom The Tears Fall By DesDownunder. No thing is isolated entire of itself; Every thing is a piece of universe, A part of the all. If a single cell should cease to be, The galaxy is the less, as well as if a sun were, As well as if a dwelling of your friend's or of your own. Any death diminishes life, Because life is involved in living; And therefore never send to know for whom a tear falls; It falls for you. ****************************** A word about this work. Some may regard this as plagiarism. I do not, anymore than I would regard Liszt's transcriptions of other composers' works as being so. (If you accept that, then I have no objections to you all telling me that I have failed miserably.) In fact, I very much would like to dedicate the above to the original author of the work on which it is based. With apologies to John Donne (1572-1631), and his meditation known popularly as "For Whom the bell tolls." (1624). I urge you to search out the original on the net. It is a beautiful piece and somewhat longer. John Donne was a great writer and thinker. I felt the unforgiving urge to try to express a similar idea to the famous section of the original in more modern and hopefully somewhat more universal images. Edit: grammar and font Link to comment
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