translation is quoted in an 1839 anthology.Stridet ventus Borealis,Imber ingruet nivalis;Quo se vertet hora in illa Rubicilla?In granario sedebit,Plumea fovens sedebitMolle caput sub axilla Rubicilla.

Another rhyme beginning "Cold and raw the north wind doth blow", a quatrain located in an American edition of Songs for the Nursery, was recorded as a folk song dating from 1817. And in the 1840s, the lines "The north wind doth