[
  {
    "title": "278. On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "HEAR, Land o’ Cakes, and brither Scots,",
      "Frae Maidenkirk to Johnie Groat’s;—",
      "If there’s a hole in a’ your coats,",
      "                  I rede you tent it:",
      "A chield’s amang you takin notes,",
      "                  And, faith, he’ll prent it:",
      "",
      "",
      "If in your bounds ye chance to light",
      "Upon a fine, fat fodgel wight,",
      "O’ stature short, but genius bright,",
      "                  That’s he, mark weel;",
      "And wow! he has an unco sleight",
      "                  O’ cauk and keel.",
      "",
      "",
      "By some auld, houlet-haunted biggin,",
      "Or kirk deserted by its riggin,",
      "It’s ten to ane ye’ll find him snug in",
      "                  Some eldritch part,",
      "Wi’ deils, they say, L—d save’s! colleaguin",
      "                  At some black art.",
      "",
      "",
      "Ilk ghaist that haunts auld ha’ or chaumer,",
      "Ye gipsy-gang that deal in glamour,",
      "And you, deep-read in hell’s black grammar,",
      "                  Warlocks and witches,",
      "Ye’ll quake at his conjuring hammer,",
      "                  Ye midnight bitches.",
      "",
      "",
      "It’s tauld he was a sodger bred,",
      "And ane wad rather fa’n than fled;",
      "But now he’s quat the spurtle-blade,",
      "                  And dog-skin wallet,",
      "And taen the—Antiquarian trade,",
      "                  I think they call it.",
      "",
      "",
      "He has a fouth o’ auld nick-nackets:",
      "Rusty airn caps and jinglin jackets,",
      "Wad haud the Lothians three in tackets,",
      "                  A towmont gude;",
      "And parritch-pats and auld saut-backets,",
      "                  Before the flood.",
      "",
      "",
      "Of Eve’s first fire he has a cinder;",
      "Auld Tubalcain’s fire-shool and fender;",
      "That which distinguished the gender",
      "                  O’ Balaam’s ass:",
      "A broomstick o’ the witch of Endor,",
      "                  Weel shod wi’ brass.",
      "",
      "",
      "Forbye, he’ll shape you aff fu’ gleg",
      "The cut of Adam’s philibeg;",
      "The knife that nickit Abel’s craig",
      "                  He’ll prove you fully,",
      "It was a faulding jocteleg,",
      "                  Or lang-kail gullie.",
      "",
      "",
      "But wad ye see him in his glee,",
      "For meikle glee and fun has he,",
      "Then set him down, and twa or three",
      "                  Gude fellows wi’ him:",
      "And port, O port! shine thou a wee,",
      "                  And THEN ye’ll see him!",
      "",
      "",
      "Now, by the Pow’rs o’ verse and prose!",
      "Thou art a dainty chield, O Grose!—",
      "Whae’er o’ thee shall ill suppose,",
      "                  They sair misca’ thee;",
      "I’d take the rascal by the nose,",
      "                  Wad say, “Shame fa’ thee!”"
    ],
    "linecount": "60"
  }
]