Sacred City (Ode to Milton Keynes)

[heslopian]

The Joseph's staff line refers to a legend where, while bringing Christianity to Britain, Joseph of Arimathea plunged his staff into Wearyall Hill at Glastonbury and it flowered into a tree, now called Glastonbury Thorns, which flower twice a year, first in winter, then in spring. "Nature's sweets and idols" means fruits and natural features, like trees (equating them with religious idols), while "bread and stones" is just my vague, horribly simplistic way of somewhat alluding to a sort-of-pagan atmosphere I'm not quite egotistical enough to go full pseudo-pagan haha.
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