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	Mr. Tom  [More info] Hi Could you please explain the meaning of this to me? Need I  look upon a death's head in a ring, that have one in my face? Thanks, Tom Mr. Tom+0 Joined on Sun, Feb 4 2007 Contributing Member 1,496 Tom

	+1 Grammar Geek  [More info] I'll be interested to know this as well, since it doesn't make much sense to me now! Grammar Geek+15 Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US Veteran Member 22,265 Barbara, who answers in American English. My housekeeping skills attest to the truth of the second law of thermodynamics: Left to themselves, things get more and more random!

	+1 Ivanhr  [More info] You can try this link  http://www.anglicanlibrary.org/donne/devotions/devotions16.htm   Your sentence is given in a context but I still can't figure it out. Ivanhr+1 Joined on Fri, Oct 2 2009 Regular Member 997

	+1 CalifJim  [More info] The skull (and cross bones) is a symbol of death.  It is "death's head". The author, like everyone else, has a skull in (behind, within) his face.  The face, being flesh and not bone, decays after death, leaving only the skull. The author asks if he really needs to be reminded by the tolling (ring) of funeral bells that he will die some day when his own skull is reminder enough. CJ CalifJim+14 Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member 26,815 "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche

	+1 Mr. Tom  [More info] CJ, your exegesis is excellent! Many thanks. Tom Mr. Tom+0