Virginia quotes

Up the hill where stucco houses inVirginia creeper drown And my childish wave of pity, seeing children carrying down Sheaves of drooping dandelions to the courts of Kentish Town.

- SirJohn Betjeman
  New Bats in Old Belfries,'Parliament Hill Fields'.

The little cousin is dead, by foul subtraction, A green bough fromVirginia's aged tree.

-John Crowe Ransom
  Chills and Fever,'Dead Boy'.

An old-fashioned Virginia fox hunt, gentlemen.

- BookerTaliaferro Washington
  Comment on the skirmish at Princeton, 3 Jan. Attributed.