If clouds or mist do dark the sky,
Great store of birds and beasts shall die;
And if the winds do fly aloft,
Then war shall vex the kingdom oft.
(Old English.)
Upon Saint Paul’s day
Put oats and barley in the clay.
Saint Patrick’s Day.
Saint Patrick’s day the warm side of a stone turns up, and the broad-back goose begins to lay.
Saint Stephen’s Day.