[
  {
    "title": "101. Song—Composed in Spring",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "AGAIN rejoicing Nature sees",
      "  Her robe assume its vernal hues:",
      "Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,",
      "  All freshly steep’d in morning dews.",
      "",
      "",
      "  Chorus.—And maun I still on Menie doat,",
      "    And bear the scorn that’s in her e’e?",
      "  For it’s jet, jet black, an’ it’s like a hawk,",
      "    An’ it winna let a body be.",
      "",
      "",
      "In vain to me the cowslips blaw,",
      "  In vain to me the vi’lets spring;",
      "In vain to me in glen or shaw,",
      "  The mavis and the lintwhite sing.",
      "                And maun I still, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "The merry ploughboy cheers his team,",
      "Wi’ joy the tentie seedsman stalks;",
      "But life to me’s a weary dream,",
      "A dream of ane that never wauks.",
      "                And maun I still, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "The wanton coot the water skims,",
      "Amang the reeds the ducklings cry,",
      "The stately swan majestic swims,",
      "And ev’ry thing is blest but I.",
      "                And maun I still, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "The sheep-herd steeks his faulding slap,",
      "And o’er the moorlands whistles shill:",
      "Wi’ wild, unequal, wand’ring step,",
      "I meet him on the dewy hill.",
      "                And maun I still, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "And when the lark, ’tween light and dark,",
      "Blythe waukens by the daisy’s side,",
      "And mounts and sings on flittering wings,",
      "A woe-worn ghaist I hameward glide.",
      "                And maun I still, &c.",
      "",
      "",
      "Come winter, with thine angry howl,",
      "And raging, bend the naked tree;",
      "Thy gloom will soothe my cheerless soul,",
      "When nature all is sad like me!",
      "                And maun I still, &c."
    ],
    "linecount": "38"
  }
]