"You can't walk by the river at Cliveden Reach and not believe
in God."
(Stanley Spencer, Artist)
See the story of the founding of Westminster Abbey on
http://thames.me.uk/s00130.htm (Visit by St Peter himself ...)
Also see excerpt from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
on
http://thames.me.uk/s00840.htm (scroll down) - a pagan story
with a Christian comment.
Also some poetry: Francis Thompson 1859-1907;
O world invisible, we view thee,
O world intangible, we touch thee,
O world unknowable we know thee,
Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!
Does the fish soar to find the ocean,
The eagle plunge to find the air -
That we ask of the stars in motion
If they have rumour of thee there?
Not where the wheeling systems darken,
And our benumbed conceiving soars! -
The drift of pinions, would we hearken,
Beat at our own clay shuttered doors.
The angels keep their ancient places;-
Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
'Tis ye, 'tis your estranged faces,
That miss the many-splendoured thing.
But when so sad thou canst not sadder
Cry - and upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob's ladder
Pitched between heaven and Charing Cross
Yea, in the night, my Soul, my daughter,
Cry - clinging heaven by the hems;
And lo, Christ walking on the water,
Not of Gennesareth, but Thames!
