Calendar of customs, superstitions, weather-lore, popular sayings, and important events connected with the county of Somerset (1920)
Somerset County Herald, Watson, William George Willis, 1863- · [n.p.] · leaf 41
me on he returned tothe home of his y(junger days at Glastonbury,where he died and was buried about the year581, or possibly later. He was an historian andreputed pro])het—the most noteworthy char-acteristics of his writings (according to Mrs. 32 Boger) being First, the melancholy despairingtone of… … FEBRUARY. Wot Feljiuary next comes by,With chill, damp earth and dripping sky ;But heart cheer up ! the days speed on.Winds blow, sun shines, and thaws are gone.And in the garden may be seenUp-springing flowers and buddings green. W. HowiTT.February was called by our Saxon ancestorsSprout-Kele,…
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