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_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 / 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. / 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 -- / Butser's old as Time and Tide. / _The Downs are sheep, the Weald is corn,_ / _You be glad you are Sussex born! _