Topography Is One Of My Chief Themes

Norfolk Would Not Be Norfolk Without A Church Tower On The Horizon Or Round A Corner Up A Lane. We Cannot Spare A Single Norfolk Church. When A Church Has Been Pulled Down The Country Seems Empty Or Is Like A Necklace With A Jewel Missing.

Hymn Tunes Are The Nearest We've Got To English Folk Music.

And Behind Their Frail Partitions Business Women Lie And Soak, Seeing Through The Draughty Skylight Flying Clouds And Railway Smoke. Rest You There, Poor Unbelov'd Ones, Lap Your Loneliness In Heat, All Too Soon The Tiny Breakfast, Trolley-bus And Windy Street!

A Whispering And Watery Norfolk Sound Telling Of All The Moonlit Reeds Around.

I Ought To Warn You That My Verse Is Of No Interest To People Who Can Think.