For her love in sleep I slake,
For her love all night I wake
For her love mourning I make
More than any man.
Blow, northern wind!
Send thou me my sweeting!
Blow, northern wind!
Blow! blow! blow!
Technically, it is to be noted that some of those poems have the combination of a six-line with a four-line passage which is frequent in French lyrics of all ages, which is also found in the verse of The Cherrie and the Slae (another of Burns’s favourite measures), and also in some of Gray’s simpler odes. It is found in one of the religious poems, with the six lines first, and the four lines after, as in Burns. The common French pattern arranges them the other way round, and so does Gray, but the constituent parts are the same.
Now shrinketh rose and lily flower