[
  {
    "title": "311. On the Birth of a Posthumous Child",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "SWEET flow’ret, pledge o’ meikle love,",
      "  And ward o’ mony a prayer,",
      "What heart o’ stane wad thou na move,",
      "  Sae helpless, sweet, and fair?",
      "",
      "",
      "November hirples o’er the lea,",
      "  Chill, on thy lovely form:",
      "And gane, alas! the shelt’ring tree,",
      "  Should shield thee frae the storm.",
      "",
      "",
      "May He who gives the rain to pour,",
      "  And wings the blast to blaw,",
      "Protect thee frae the driving show’r,",
      "  The bitter frost and snaw.",
      "",
      "",
      "May He, the friend o’ Woe and Want,",
      "  Who heals life’s various stounds,",
      "Protect and guard the mother plant,",
      "  And heal her cruel wounds.",
      "",
      "",
      "But late she flourish’d, rooted fast,",
      "  Fair in the summer morn,",
      "Now feebly bends she in the blast,",
      "  Unshelter’d and forlorn.",
      "",
      "",
      "Blest be thy bloom, thou lovely gem,",
      "  Unscath’d by ruffian hand!",
      "And from thee many a parent stem",
      "  Arise to deck our land!"
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]