THE RAIN IT "REIGNETH."
Found in i the visitors' book in the Ben , Nevis Hotel:— \ i In rain's most tyrannous reign our pony's; rein *we draw, • -,-..' : Then, midst mysterious mist; it seemed w had missed the view; '-.-'.■:. • . : , ; But patient souls old Sol's bright beams ere" long console, '■ | All Scotia's mountains 'neath our gladdened' gaze unroll. 1 . ! The weather depends on the moon, so I'v»'. heard, ■ ■'■:': And Tve found iiiat the saying is true; '; For at Bala it rains when, the moon's in the' . "full," . ; And it rains whom the moon's in- the " new." ' . When the moon's at " three-quarters," then! down conies the rain ; • At the ""half" its' no better, I ween; ' when the moon's in "fir3t quarter" it's at it' :';| And it rains, besides, mostly between. v ■';-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7014, 1 February 1901, Page 3
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127THE RAIN IT "REIGNETH." Star (Christchurch), Issue 7014, 1 February 1901, Page 3
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