 | Katherine Glass Greene - 1926 - 476 pagine
...inside of the church was said to have been delayed for forty days by continual rain ; hence the rhyme : St. Swithun's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain; St. Swithun's day, if thou be faire, For forty days 'twill raine nae maire. On 25th July, 1554, Philip of Spain was married in this... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Wayland D. Hand - 1964 - 726 pagine
...Ontario: Doering, Customs, 151 — New York: Boughton, 189, No. 7; Cutting, Farm, 34 (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 mair) ; Gardner, No. 376 (if it rains... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pagine
...hint, and moreover made of poor Swithun a sort of weather-vane. So arose the popular rhyme : — • " St. Swithun's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days it will remain ; St. Swithun's day, if thou be faire, For forty days 'twill rain nae maire." By the inscription on Shakespeare's tombstone the great... | |
 | Mary Ellen Hynes - 1993 - 228 pagine
...Apostles." Roman martyrology St. Swithun bishop (c. 800-862) St. Swithun's Day, if thou dost rain, For 40 days it will remain. St. Swithun's Day, if thou be fair, For 40 days 'twill rain nae mair. This is a bad time of year for rain. Harvest time is here, and when grain... | |
 | Elizabeth Lawrence - 1995 - 290 pagine
...13, 1961 Rain Signs St. Swithin's day if thou doest rain For forty days it will remain: St. Swithin's day if thou be fair For forty days 'twill rain na mair Saint Swithin was the ninth-century bishop of Winchester who later became the patron saint of Winchester... | |
 | Edwin Radford, Mona Augusta Radford - 1996 - 392 pagine
...who is supposed to produce the Easter eggs. RAIN One of the best known English weather-rhymes runs: St Swithun's Day, if thou be fair, For forty days 'twill rain nae mair; St Swithun's Day, if thou bring rain, For forty days it will remain. Legend says that when... | |
 | Ronald Blythe - 2001 - 228 pagine
...As I muse about all this on a July day, the West-Saxon weatherman who comes to mind is St Swithun: St Swithun's day, if thou dost rain, For forty days...St Swithun's day, if thou be fair, For forty days it will be fair. The saint would not have been pleased to be commemorated in this jingle either for... | |
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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. 
