Excerpt from The South Country, Vol. 33

The name of "South Country" is taken from a poem by Mr. Hilaire Belloc, beginning -

"When I am having in the Midlands,

They are sodden and unkind,

I light my lamp in the evening,

My work is left behind;

And the great hills of the South Country

Come back into my mind."

The name is given to the south of England as distinguished from the Midlands, "North England," and "West England" by the Severn. The poet is thinking particularly of Sussex and of the South Downs. In using the term I am thinking of all that country which is dominated by the Downs or by the English Channel, or by both; Cornwall and East Anglia have been admitted only for the sake of contrast.

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