Flanked on either side by a muddled confusion of historical architecture and modern-day glamour, the Thames is still very much a working river. I can't help thinking about all the billions of people who have walked these banks over the centuries, and how the skyline has changed (and will continue to change...interminably).
Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames at EveningGlide gently, thus forever glide,
O Thames! that other bards may see,
As lovely visions by thy side
As now, fair river! come to me.
Oh glide, fair stream! for ever so;
Thy quiet soul on all bestowing,
'Till all our minds forever flow,
As thy deep waters now are flowing.
--William Wordsworth, 1790
