Herbert Joseph Thompson

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    “Chaucer’s remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, “Ah, my dear God!””
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Not many people know that.”
    —Michael Caine [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite] (b. 1933)

    “Cry,—clinging Heaven by the hems;
    And lo, Christ walking on the water
    Not of Gennesareth, but Thames!”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)