[
  {
    "title": "130. Nature’s Law: A Poem",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "LET other heroes boast their scars,",
      "  The marks of sturt and strife:",
      "And other poets sing of wars,",
      "  The plagues of human life:",
      "Shame fa’ the fun, wi’ sword and gun",
      "  To slap mankind like lumber!",
      "I sing his name, and nobler fame,",
      "  Wha multiplies our number.",
      "",
      "",
      "Great Nature spoke, with air benign,",
      "  “Go on, ye human race;",
      "This lower world I you resign;",
      "  Be fruitful and increase.",
      "The liquid fire of strong desire",
      "  I’ve pour’d it in each bosom;",
      "Here, on this had, does Mankind stand,",
      "  And there is Beauty’s blossom.”",
      "",
      "",
      "The Hero of these artless strains,",
      "  A lowly bard was he,",
      "Who sung his rhymes in Coila’s plains,",
      "  With meikle mirth an’glee;",
      "Kind Nature’s care had given his share",
      "  Large, of the flaming current;",
      "And, all devout, he never sought",
      "  To stem the sacred torrent.",
      "",
      "",
      "He felt the powerful, high behest",
      "  Thrill, vital, thro’ and thro’;",
      "And sought a correspondent breast,",
      "  To give obedience due:",
      "Propitious Powers screen’d the young flow’rs,",
      "  From mildews of abortion;",
      "And low! the bard—a great reward—",
      "  Has got a double portion!",
      "",
      "",
      "Auld cantie Coil may count the day,",
      "  As annual it returns,",
      "The third of Libra’s equal sway,",
      "  That gave another Burns,",
      "With future rhymes, an’ other times,",
      "  To emulate his sire:",
      "To sing auld Coil in nobler style",
      "  With more poetic fire.",
      "",
      "",
      "Ye Powers of peace, and peaceful song,",
      "  Look down with gracious eyes;",
      "And bless auld Coila, large and long,",
      "  With multiplying joys;",
      "Lang may she stand to prop the land,",
      "  The flow’r of ancient nations;",
      "And Burnses spring, her fame to sing,",
      "  To endless generations!"
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  }
]