[
  {
    "title": "419. Bonie Jean: A Ballad",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "THERE was a lass, and she was fair,",
      "  At kirk or market to be seen;",
      "When a’ our fairest maids were met,",
      "  The fairest maid was bonie Jean.",
      "",
      "",
      "And aye she wrought her mammie’s wark,",
      "  And aye she sang sae merrilie;",
      "The blythest bird upon the bush",
      "  Had ne’er a lighter heart than she.",
      "",
      "",
      "But hawks will rob the tender joys",
      "  That bless the little lintwhite’s nest;",
      "And frost will blight the fairest flowers,",
      "  And love will break the soundest rest.",
      "",
      "",
      "Young Robie was the brawest lad,",
      "  The flower and pride of a’ the glen;",
      "And he had owsen, sheep, and kye,",
      "  And wanton naigies nine or ten.",
      "",
      "",
      "He gaed wi’ Jeanie to the tryste,",
      "  He danc’d wi’ Jeanie on the down;",
      "And, lang ere witless Jeanie wist,",
      "  Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!",
      "",
      "",
      "As in the bosom of the stream,",
      "  The moon-beam dwells at dewy e’en;",
      "So trembling, pure, was tender love",
      "  Within the breast of bonie Jean.",
      "",
      "",
      "And now she works her mammie’s wark,",
      "  And aye she sighs wi’ care and pain;",
      "Yet wist na what her ail might be,",
      "  Or what wad make her weel again.",
      "",
      "",
      "But did na Jeanie’s heart loup light,",
      "  And didna joy blink in her e’e,",
      "As Robie tauld a tale o’ love",
      "  Ae e’ening on the lily lea?",
      "",
      "",
      "The sun was sinking in the west,",
      "  The birds sang sweet in ilka grove;",
      "His cheek to hers he fondly laid,",
      "  And whisper’d thus his tale o’ love:",
      "",
      "",
      "“O Jeanie fair, I lo’e thee dear;",
      "  O canst thou think to fancy me,",
      "Or wilt thou leave thy mammie’s cot,",
      "  And learn to tent the farms wi’ me?",
      "",
      "",
      "“At barn or byre thou shalt na drudge,",
      "  Or naething else to trouble thee;",
      "But stray amang the heather-bells,",
      "  And tent the waving corn wi’ me.”",
      "",
      "",
      "Now what could artless Jeanie do?",
      "  She had nae will to say him na:",
      "At length she blush’d a sweet consent,",
      "  And love was aye between them twa."
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  }
]