| Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). Verse: 1885–1918. 1922. | | | | The Run of the Downs |
| | | THE WEALD is good, the Downs are best— | |
| I’ll give you the run of ’em, East to West. | |
| Beachy Head and Winddoor Hill, | |
| They were once and they are still. | |
| Firle, Mount Caburn and Mount Harry | 5 |
| Go back as far as sums ’ll carry. | |
| Ditchling Beacon and Chanctonbury Ring, | |
| They have looked on many a thing, | |
| And what those two have missed between ’em, | |
| I reckon Truleigh Hill has seen ’em. | 10 |
| Highden, Bignor and Duncton Down | |
| Knew Old England before the Crown. | |
| Linch Down, Treyford and Sunwood | |
| Knew Old England before the Flood; | |
| And when you end on the Hampshire side— | 15 |
| Butser’s old as Time and Tide. | |
| The Downs are sheep, the Weald is corn, | |
| You be glad you are Sussex born! | | | | |
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