[
  {
    "title": "79. Adam Armour’s Prayer",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "GUDE pity me, because I’m little!",
      "For though I am an elf o’ mettle,",
      "An’ can, like ony wabster’s shuttle,",
      "                Jink there or here,",
      "Yet, scarce as lang’s a gude kail-whittle,",
      "                I’m unco queer.",
      "",
      "",
      "An’ now Thou kens our waefu’ case;",
      "For Geordie’s jurr we’re in disgrace,",
      "Because we stang’d her through the place,",
      "                An’ hurt her spleuchan;",
      "For whilk we daurna show our face",
      "                Within the clachan.",
      "",
      "",
      "An’ now we’re dern’d in dens and hollows,",
      "And hunted, as was William Wallace,",
      "Wi’ constables-thae blackguard fallows,",
      "                An’ sodgers baith;",
      "But Gude preserve us frae the gallows,",
      "                That shamefu’ death!",
      "",
      "",
      "Auld grim black-bearded Geordie’s sel’—",
      "O shake him owre the mouth o’ hell!",
      "There let him hing, an’ roar, an’ yell",
      "                Wi’ hideous din,",
      "And if he offers to rebel,",
      "                Then heave him in.",
      "",
      "",
      "When Death comes in wi’ glimmerin blink,",
      "An’ tips auld drucken Nanse the wink,",
      "May Sautan gie her doup a clink",
      "                Within his yett,",
      "An’ fill her up wi’ brimstone drink,",
      "                Red-reekin het.",
      "",
      "",
      "Though Jock an’ hav’rel Jean are merry—",
      "Some devil seize them in a hurry,",
      "An’ waft them in th’ infernal wherry",
      "                Straught through the lake,",
      "An’ gie their hides a noble curry",
      "                Wi’ oil of aik!",
      "",
      "",
      "As for the jurr-puir worthless body!",
      "She’s got mischief enough already;",
      "Wi’ stanged hips, and buttocks bluidy",
      "                She’s suffer’d sair;",
      "But, may she wintle in a woody,",
      "                If she wh-e mair!"
    ],
    "linecount": "42"
  }
]