County anthem has always been (in most Dorzet volks minds) Dorset is Beautiful by the Yetties. The actual anthem, if regimental marches are anything to go by, has been 'To be a Farmer's boy' since the formation of the Dorsetshire regiment back in 1852 or there abouts, can't remember quite, only worked in their museum for 2 years......

Formed from the 39th and 52nd Regiments of Foot, which have their roots in the armies of 1770's. And they were first onto the subcontinent of India, which is why their motto is 'Primus in Indus' and has nothing to do with camping stoves.....

LTS But Crowns is an excellent poem - he always was a better poet than Hardy, who gave up writing novels when Jude the Obscure was slated by the critics and dubbed 'Jude the Obscene'!