 | Charles Swainson - 1885 - 268 str.
...arondelles volent h, terre At!in la poussiere." and in North Italy :— " Le rundane che ula a bass L'c segnal d'un gran slaass." Hence Gray writes in his...singing a swallow song, which has been handed down by Athenaeus, and thus rendered into English :— " He comes ! he comes ! who loves to hear Soft sunny... | |
 | Charles Swainson - 1885 - 266 str.
...volent a terre Adiu la poussiere." and in North Italy :— " Le rundane che ula a bass . L'e segnald'un gran slaass." Hence Gray writes in his first Pastoral:—...singing a swallow song, which has been handed down by Athenseus, and thus rendered into English :— " He comes ! he comes ! who loves to hear Soft sunny... | |
 | George Herman Ellwanger - 1890 - 306 str.
...swallow's wings. Gay, in The Shepherd's Walk, has the swallow do graceful duty as a weatherprophet : When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Athenaeus has referred as happily to the bird as any of the old Greek poets in a fragment, The Song... | |
 | John Gay - 1893 - 384 str.
...straight ensue ; He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gath'ring rain. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. 30 1 Erst, a contraction of ere this, it signifies some time ago or formerly. * i ED. 'Heifers tails.'... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - 1895 - 368 str.
...straight ensue: He first that useful secret did explain, That pricking corns foretold the gathering rain. When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear. Let Cloddipole then hear us twain rehearse, And praise his sweetheart in alternate verse. I '11 wager... | |
 | 1895 - 306 str.
...fly, Then the end of dust is nigh." Their flying high up in the air portends fair weather : " When the swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the weather would be fair." Years have rolled by since I listened with silent svonder to the swallows'... | |
 | Fanny Dickerson Bergen - 1899 - 204 str.
...low it presages rain. (Brittany.) 594. When swallows fly high it will be fine weather. (Brittany.) " When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." — Gay, Shepherd's Week. 611. According as the goose-bone is white or red, the winter will be cold... | |
 | United States. Weather Bureau - 1899 - 926 str.
...in evenings fly high and chirp, fair weather follows; when low, rain follows. \Vhon swallows lleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would he clear. -Gay. Cranes soaring aloft ami quietly in the air foreshows fair weather, hut if they make... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1900 - 886 str.
...He taught us erst the heifer's tail* to view When stuck aloft, that show'rs would straight ensue ; When swallows fleet soar high and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." In the Trivia of the same poet the inhabitants of towns are provided with similar portents — " But... | |
 | William Gregory Wood-Martin - 1902 - 480 str.
...foretell approaching rain ; if they fly high, they announce continued fine weather. Thus Gay says : — " When swallows fleet soar high, and sport in air, He told us that the welkin would be clear." regularly and peeked at the window pane, and even after his death, the bird still returned each morning... | |
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Cloddipole we learnt to read the skies, To know when hail will fall, or winds arise. He taught us erst the heifer's tail to view, When... 
