[
  {
    "title": "494. Song—Farewell thou stream that winding flows",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "FAREWELL, thou stream that winding flows",
      "  Around Eliza’s dwelling;",
      "O mem’ry! spare the cruel thoes",
      "  Within my bosom swelling.",
      "Condemn’d to drag a hopeless chain",
      "  And yet in secret languish;",
      "To feel a fire in every vein,",
      "  Nor dare disclose my anguish.",
      "",
      "",
      "Love’s veriest wretch, unseen, unknown,",
      "  I fain my griefs would cover;",
      "The bursting sigh, th’ unweeting groan,",
      "  Betray the hapless lover.",
      "I know thou doom’st me to despair,",
      "  Nor wilt, nor canst relieve me;",
      "But, O Eliza, hear one prayer—",
      "  For pity’s sake forgive me!",
      "",
      "",
      "The music of thy voice I heard,",
      "  Nor wist while it enslav’d me;",
      "I saw thine eyes, yet nothing fear’d,",
      "  Till fears no more had sav’d me:",
      "Th’ unwary sailor thus, aghast",
      "  The wheeling torrent viewing,",
      "’Mid circling horrors sinks at last,",
      "  In overwhelming ruin."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]