counties quotes

There are English counties like hunting-tunes Played on the keys of a postboy's horn, But I will remember where I was born.

- StephenVincent Bene  t
  'American Names'.

England has greater counties Their peace to hers is small; Low hills, rich fields, calm rivers, In Essex seek them all.

- Arthur S(hearly) Cripps
Quoted in S P B Mais and Tom Stephenson (eds) Lovely Britain (c.1930).

Here of a Sunday morning My love and I would lie, And see the coloured counties, And hear the larks so high About us in the sky.

- A(lfred) E(dward) Housman
  A Shropshire Lad, no.21.