 | 1937 - 618 sider
...on a hot stone. Candlemas Day the good housewife's goose lay; Valentine's Day, yours and mine, may. If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight; But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. On Candlemas Day if the thorns... | |
 | 1828 - 464 sider
...foul, it presaged a mild and gentle season would ensue. Observe the following old saw to this effect : If Candlemas day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight -, If on Candlemas day it be shower and rain, Winter ia gone and will not come agafn. THE BLESSING... | |
 | 1897 - 680 sider
...pale blossom of the unripened year.' ' On Candlemas Day itself, the old metrical proverb is given : " If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; If Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, U inter's gone and will not come again." Or, as in the writer's... | |
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If Candlemas Day be fair and bright, Winter will have another flight ; But if Candlemas Day be clouds and rain, Winter is gone, and will not come again. 
