The Yankee Pharisee
Proclaims it his duty,
Divinely given, to build
New Jerusalem
Upon the earth
By fire and sword
And any other kind of force.
The Southerner,
Truer son of English
And the Celts, senses
Something there amiss.
Deep within his soul
There lies a primordial
Memory, of deathless
Avalon, the Isle
Of Paradise,
England’s Jerusalem
Of Glastonbury.
The Righteous Joseph
Of Arimathea
Drove out the druids
From her hills; . . .
The rest is at https://www.reckonin.com/walt-garlington/the-southrons-new-jerusalem .
For more on the holy places and people associated with Glastonbury, please mash this link:
https://orthochristian.com/130555.html
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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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