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A MEDLEY OF WEATHER LORE

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A
MEDLEY
OF
WEATHER LORE

COLLECTED BY
M. E. S. WRIGHT

"An almanack is out at twelve months day,
My legacy it doth endure for aye,
But take you notice, though 'tis but a hint,
It far exceeds some books of greater print."

The Shepherd's Legacy.

(John Claridge, 1670)

Horace G. Commin,

Bournemouth

1913

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THE ANCHOR PRESS, LTD., TIPTREE, ESSEX.

PREFACE

In this collection of Weather Lore and PoetryI beg to acknowledge with gratitude permissionfrom Messrs. Macmillan to quote lines fromTennyson, Charles Turner, Alfred Austin, MatthewArnold, Christina Rossetti, T. E. Brown,and Francis Doyle.

From Messrs. Longman and Green fromJean Ingelow, from "Four Bridges," and "AnAfternoon at a Parsonage." Andrew Lang, from"A Ballade of Summer." William Morris' from"The Earthly Paradise," and "Love is Enough,"and Edwin Arnold, from "Bloom of an AlmondTree."

From Messrs. Kegan Paul and Trench fromLewis Morris. From Messrs. Chatto and Windus(by the courtesy of Mr. Theodore Watts-Dunton)for the inclusion of verses by A.Swinburne, and from the Walter Scott PublishingCompany for the use of Selections ofR. W. Emerson and Owen Meredith. I haveendeavoured to avoid infringing copyrights, butif I should have done so inadvertently I begthat my sincere apologies maybe accepted.

M. E. S. Wright.

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