[
  {
    "title": "193. On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "WHY, ye tenants of the lake,",
      "For me your wat’ry haunt forsake?",
      "Tell me, fellow-creatures, why",
      "At my presence thus you fly?",
      "Why disturb your social joys,",
      "Parent, filial, kindred ties?—",
      "Common friend to you and me,",
      "yature’s gifts to all are free:",
      "Peaceful keep your dimpling wave,",
      "Busy feed, or wanton lave;",
      "Or, beneath the sheltering rock,",
      "Bide the surging billow’s shock.",
      "",
      "",
      "  Conscious, blushing for our race,",
      "Soon, too soon, your fears I trace,",
      "Man, your proud, usurping foe,",
      "Would be lord of all below:",
      "Plumes himself in freedom’s pride,",
      "Tyrant stern to all beside.",
      "",
      "",
      "  The eagle, from the cliffy brow,",
      "Marking you his prey below,",
      "In his breast no pity dwells,",
      "Strong necessity compels:",
      "But Man, to whom alone is giv’n",
      "A ray direct from pitying Heav’n,",
      "Glories in his heart humane—",
      "And creatures for his pleasure slain!",
      "",
      "",
      "  In these savage, liquid plains,",
      "Only known to wand’ring swains,",
      "Where the mossy riv’let strays,",
      "Far from human haunts and ways;",
      "All on Nature you depend,",
      "And life’s poor season peaceful spend.",
      "",
      "",
      "  Or, if man’s superior might",
      "Dare invade your native right,",
      "On the lofty ether borne,",
      "Man with all his pow’rs you scorn;",
      "Swiftly seek, on clanging wings,",
      "Other lakes and other springs;",
      "And the foe you cannot brave,",
      "Scorn at least to be his slave."
    ],
    "linecount": "40"
  }
]