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. Proverbial Folk-lore - Pagina 25 di Alan Benjamin Cheales - 1875 - 173 pagine Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
...may well be called the exception, and not the rule. I think the lines run thus : — " St. Swithiu's day, if thou dost rain, " For forty days it will remain ; " St. Swithin's day, if thou art fair, " For forty days 'twill rain пае mair." " St. Swithin is not the...