Liskeard Rhymes

 Weather & moorland rhymes

Misty morning fields near Liskeard

Liskeard Weather Rhyme

The South wind always brings fine weather, The North wind wet and cold together
The West wind always brings the rain, The East wind blows it back again.


If the sun in red should set,
The next day surely will be wet,

If the sun should set in grey, 
The next will be a rainy day.

 

Moorland worker

Here's to the jolly furze-cutter, 

Who does his work with ease,

He goes to work when he minds to,

And leaves off just when he please.

Notes

source Thomas Bond Topographical Sketches of East and West Looe 1823

Suitable for a bedtime story
Location
Liskeard
Co-ordinates

50.4558, -4.46466

Source
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