And as we leave Donne and Walton on the shores of Metahemeralism, we wave a fond farewell to those famous chums of yore.
Dr Donne's verses are like the peace of God; they pass all understanding.
A man, engaged in his simple reflections in everyday life, will comprehend neither the possibility, nor the benefits of self-sacrifice, but, when given ("qu'on lui donne", Fr. ) a great cause to defend, and he will find only natural to sacrifice oneself for it.
And as if reporting some felony to the police they let you know you were not John Donne.
I still read Donne, particularly his love poems
Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility.