[
  {
    "title": "538. Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "NOW spring has clad the grove in green,",
      "  And strew’d the lea wi’ flowers;",
      "The furrow’d, waving corn is seen",
      "  Rejoice in fostering showers.",
      "While ilka thing in nature join",
      "  Their sorrows to forego,",
      "O why thus all alone are mine",
      "  The weary steps o’ woe!",
      "",
      "",
      "The trout in yonder wimpling burn",
      "  That glides, a silver dart,",
      "And, safe beneath the shady thorn,",
      "  Defies the angler’s art—",
      "My life was ance that careless stream,",
      "  That wanton trout was I;",
      "But Love, wi’ unrelenting beam,",
      "  Has scorch’d my fountains dry.",
      "",
      "",
      "That little floweret’s peaceful lot,",
      "  In yonder cliff that grows,",
      "Which, save the linnet’s flight, I wot,",
      "  Nae ruder visit knows,",
      "Was mine, till Love has o’er me past,",
      "  And blighted a’ my bloom;",
      "And now, beneath the withering blast,",
      "  My youth and joy consume.",
      "",
      "",
      "The waken’d lav’rock warbling springs,",
      "  And climbs the early sky,",
      "Winnowing blythe his dewy wings",
      "  In morning’s rosy eye;",
      "As little reck’d I sorrow’s power,",
      "  Until the flowery snare",
      "O’witching Love, in luckless hour,",
      "  Made me the thrall o’ care.",
      "",
      "",
      "O had my fate been Greenland snows,",
      "  Or Afric’s burning zone,",
      "Wi’man and nature leagued my foes,",
      "  So Peggy ne’er I’d known!",
      "The wretch whose doom is “Hope nae mair”",
      "  What tongue his woes can tell;",
      "Within whase bosom, save Despair,",
      "  Nae kinder spirits dwell."
    ],
    "linecount": "40"
  }
]