Cherbury was Arcadia, and Cadurcis Macedon; while the intervening woods figured as the forests of Thessaly, and the breezy downs were the heights of Pindus.

The wide black heavens yawned again, Down came the torrent rushing rain

Tumble-down was the never-painted house; ditto its three barns.

Brean Down and the North Hill near Minehead are the only headlands, but notwithstanding this, the watering places of Somerset are breezy and healthy.

" Down came the axe, striking a spark of fire from the lock, which fell with a clatter at the next blow; but ere we had time to open the door, Simon and his party, entering by the back door, forced us to turn for our defence.

"Down went the corse with a hollow plunge, And vanish'd in the pool Anon I cleansed my bloody hands

"'A land breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset; Down went the Royal George, With all her crew complete.

And he sang as he watched and waited 'til his billy boiled, "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda, with me?" Up rode the squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred, Down came the troopers, one, two, three, "Whose is that jumbuck you've got in your tucker bag?" "You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me.

" "Hey?" Down came Buster Kelley's feet from the table, upon which his knuckles fell, and then he arose from the chair, standing in a crouching position, with his hands resting on the table, across which he glared at Roland Ditson.

XVII At length, though hid in clouds, the moon arose; 145 The downs were visibleand now revealed A structure stands, which two bare slopes enclose.

They’ll be here from Cunnamulla, and the rolling downs between, For this is the real convincing ground, these plains of Riverine.

But hate and fury ill supplied The stream of life's exhausted tide, And all too late the advantage came, To turn the odds of deadly game; For, while the dagger gleam'd on high, Keeled soul and sense, reeled brain and eye, Down came the blow!

" Down went Wattie's head into the burn again, and this time he was raised with his mouth sputtering out the contents it had received.

This down is a beautiful park-like spot, with a delightful woodland, now bounded by the Sussex Downs.

Perhaps after all the most fundamental truth about Lewes is that she is the capital of the South Downs, and the South Downs are the glory of the South Country; from the noble antiquity of Winchester to the splendour of Beachy Head they run like an indestructible line of Latin verse beneath the blazon of England.

The Downs are not the best subjects in the world for verse; but they will be remembered with and by his descriptive line in the "Idylls" Far o'er the long backs of the bushless downs.