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Sunday, September 8, 2024

About John Donne

Meditation XVII -- excerpt

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;

God employs several

translators; some pieces are

translated by age, some by

sickness, some by war,

some by justice; but God's

hand is in every translation,

and His hand shall bind up

all our scattered leaves again,

for that library where every

book shall lie upon to one

another.

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