 | Frances Marion Gostling - 1926 - 408 pagine
...continued so unsettled, that the ceremony had to be postponed ; which gave rise to the saying: " Saint Swithun's day, if thou dost rain. For forty days it will remain ; Saint Swithun's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair." Many scenes rise before... | |
 | Robert Borneman Ludy - 1926 - 578 pagine
...it was delayed for forty days by rain has been immortalized in the popular jingle: — St. Swithin's day, if thou dost rain For forty days it will remain; St. Swithin's day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twil rain na mair. St. Swithin's iron grill in the... | |
 | Mary Emogene Hazeltine - 1928 - 324 pagine
...celebration of this French holiday. 15 St. Swithin's Day. 24, 255, 258, 259, 272, 7733 (poem) "St. Swithin's Day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain. St. Swithin's Day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae niair." 15 Inigo Jones, architect. 1573-1652.... | |
 | 1933 - 882 pagine
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 | William George Smith - 1935 - 684 pagine
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ST. Swithin's day if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain : St. Swithin's day if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain na mair. 
