[
  {
    "title": "19. A Prayer in the Prospect of Death",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "O THOU unknown, Almighty Cause",
      "  Of all my hope and fear!",
      "In whose dread presence, ere an hour,",
      "  Perhaps I must appear!",
      "",
      "",
      "If I have wander’d in those paths",
      "  Of life I ought to shun,",
      "As something, loudly, in my breast,",
      "  Remonstrates I have done;",
      "",
      "",
      "Thou know’st that Thou hast formed me",
      "  With passions wild and strong;",
      "And list’ning to their witching voice",
      "  Has often led me wrong.",
      "",
      "",
      "Where human weakness has come short,",
      "  Or frailty stept aside,",
      "Do Thou, All-Good-for such Thou art—",
      "  In shades of darkness hide.",
      "",
      "",
      "Where with intention I have err’d,",
      "  No other plea I have,",
      "But, Thou art good; and Goodness still",
      "  Delighteth to forgive."
    ],
    "linecount": "20"
  }
]