"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."

Source: http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/

. . . and what a delightful surprise :)

You can read the Meditation XVII from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions with annotations here:

http://isu.indstate.edu/ilnprof/ENG451/ISLAND/text.html

or:)

You can hear the meditation read aloud  here:

http://www.global-language.com/devotion.html

*enjoy*