Boston, Boston, Boston! Thou hast naught to boast on, But a Grand Sluice, and a high steeple; c.1500 A proud conceited ignorant people, And a coast where souls are lost on.

-Anonymous
  Comment by visitor at the opening of the Grand Sluice, Boston, Lincolnshire,15 Oct. Quoted in  Jennifer  Westwood Albion (1985), ch. 6,'English Shires'.

Giraffes!öa People Who live between the earth and skies, Each in his own religious steeple, Keeping a light-house with his eyes.

-Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie
  'Dreaming Spires'.

   The colour of my soul is iron-greyand sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

-Debray, Regis
  Letter.

   Wanwordy, crazy, dinsome thing, As e'er was fram'd to jow or ring, What gar'd them sic in steeple hing They ken themsel', 320

-Fergusson, Robert
US  politician  and diplomat,  congresswoman  from  New Jersey (1975^83). She compiled theVogue Book of Etiquette (1948).