Poem from "The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin" (page 56: originally in THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS)
If I were called in
To construct a religion
I would make use of water
Going to church
Would entail a fording
To dry, different clothing
My liturgy 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.
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