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On March 31, 1631, English priest and poet John Donne entered into life everlasting. He is Commemorated this day on the calendars of the Episcopal and Lutheran churches. His most well known essay is "for whom the bell tolls". Nuc lento sonitu dicunt, morieris. Now this bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. ...No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well...

Trentino was reciting the second stanza of Donne's Go and Catch a Falling Star. Lovely stuff. "If thou be'st born to strange sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee, Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me, All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear, No where Lives a woman true, and fair." "I remember the third stanza, too," said Trentino, smiling, "but it's far too bitter." ...more