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Poet: William Blake
Poem: And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time
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May 12 2003
Comment 1 of 1, added on March 5th, 2005 at 3:48 PM.
This poem by Blake is based on an ancient legend that Jesus visited Britain and established a church on the present location of Glastonbury abbey, apparently the Celtic Christian church was given precedence over the Roman church in the middle ages in the light of theis legend. Jesus was supposed to have visited Britain and landed in Cornwall with his uncle Joseph of Arimathea who was a tin or silver merchant and they travelled to Glastonbury resting on wearyall hill where Joseph planted his staff, there still grows there to this day a type of thorn tree that does indeed flower at the same time as a similar thorn bush that grows in modern day Palestine (Israel). Twelve huts were apparently built there and a church set up and then Glastonbury Abbey was built later on very close to what is commonly known as King Arthur's 'Avalon' or Glastonbury Tor. King Arthur's grave was supposed to also be located at Glastonbury Abbey and indeed bones were dug up at this spot from a corpse measuring eight feet in height.
chuangzu from United Kingdom
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This poem by Blake is based on an ancient legend that Jesus visited Britain and established a church on the present location of Glastonbury abbey, apparently the Celtic Christian church was given precedence over the Roman church in the middle ages in the light of theis legend. Jesus was supposed to have visited Britain and landed in Cornwall with his uncle Joseph of Arimathea who was a tin or silver merchant and they travelled to Glastonbury resting on wearyall hill where Joseph planted his staff, there still grows there to this day a type of thorn tree that does indeed flower at the same time as a similar thorn bush that grows in modern day Palestine (Israel). Twelve huts were apparently built there and a church set up and then Glastonbury Abbey was built later on very close to what is commonly known as King Arthur's 'Avalon' or Glastonbury Tor. King Arthur's grave was supposed to also be located at Glastonbury Abbey and indeed bones were dug up at this spot from a corpse measuring eight feet in height.
chuangzu from United Kingdom