Poem by Philip Arthur Larkin

Water

If I were called in
To construct a religion
I should make use of water.

Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothes;

My litany would employ
Images of sousing,
A furious devout drench,

And I should raise in the east
A glass of water
Where any-angled light
Would congregate endlessly.

1. Wedding Wind
2. The North Ship
3. To Failure
4. Sad Steps
5. At Grass

Ralph Emerson Water ("The water understands")

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