If the robin sings in the bush, then the weather will be coarse; but if the robin sings on the barn, then the weather will be warm.
Norfolk.
FEBRUARY
Ancient Cornish name:
Hu-evral, whirling month.
Jewel: Amethyst. Sincerity.
One month is past, another is begun,
Since merry bells rang out the dying year,
And buds of rarest green began to peer,
As if impatient for a warmer sun;
And though the distant hills are bleak and dun,
The virgin snowdrop, like a lambent fire,
Pierces the cold earth, with its green-streaked spire;
And in dark woods the wandering little one
May find a primrose.