[
  {
    "title": "304. Song—I Murder hate",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "I MURDER hate by flood or field,",
      "  Tho’ glory’s name may screen us;",
      "In wars at home I’ll spend my blood—",
      "  Life-giving wars of Venus.",
      "The deities that I adore",
      "  Are social Peace and Plenty;",
      "I’m better pleas’d to make one more,",
      "  Than be the death of twenty.",
      "",
      "",
      "I would not die like Socrates,",
      "  For all the fuss of Plato;",
      "Nor would I with Leonidas,",
      "  Nor yet would I with Cato:",
      "The zealots of the Church and State",
      "  Shall ne’er my mortal foes be;",
      "But let me have bold Zimri’s fate,",
      "  Within the arms of Cozbi!"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]