[
  {
    "title": "352. The Song of Death",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "FAREWELL, thou fair day, thou green earth, and ye skies,",
      "  Now gay with the broad setting sun;",
      "Farewell, loves and friendships, ye dear tender ties,",
      "  Our race of existence is run!",
      "Thou grim King of Terrors; thou Life’s gloomy foe!",
      "  Go, frighten the coward and slave;",
      "Go, teach them to tremble, fell tyrant! but know",
      "  No terrors hast thou to the brave!",
      "",
      "",
      "Thou strik’st the dull peasant—he sinks in the dark,",
      "  Nor saves e’en the wreck of a name;",
      "Thou strik’st the young hero—a glorious mark;",
      "  He falls in the blaze of his fame!",
      "In the field of proud honour—our swords in our hands,",
      "  Our King and our country to save;",
      "While victory shines on Life’s last ebbing sands,—",
      "  O! who would not die with the brave!"
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]