...Ah, what matter what I say," answered Teague. " If it 's determined to rain, I can't prevent it. ' Happy is the bride that the sun shines on, And happy is the corpse that the rain rains on ! ' • I 'in neither a bride nor a corpse, the divil a hair it matters...

...four correspondents. Those who favour this solution quote in support of their theory the old saw, ' Happy is the bride that the sun shines on, and happy is the corpse that the rain rains on.' It seems, however, unlikely that Sir Hilary would have used the word...

...Bridal and burial are linked together in the sweet old adage so often in the mouths of the poor : ' Happy is the bride that the sun shines on," And happy is the corpse that the rain rains upon. ' There is both truth and poetry in the thought here conveyed of the...

...with her," says Lady Olivia good-humouredly ; " but she overpowered me with a heap of old adages — ' Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.' And, ' Happy is the corpse that the rain rains on.' And so forth ; and she wouldn't be married on a Friday for anything,...

...one of the principles of the moral philosophy of the village, and it ran as follows : — " Blithe is the bride that the sun shines on, And happy is the corpse that the rain rains on." It was a very wet morning and the burn was high in spate when guidwives...

...marry again.' Though rather gruesome in the mingling of events, the following rhyme is often repeated, "Happy is the bride that the sun shines on And happy is the corpse that the rain rains upon."3 Almost every article in the home has some novel custom or interesting...