[
  {
    "title": "92. Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "WITH secret throes I marked that earth,",
      "That cottage, witness of my birth;",
      "And near I saw, bold issuing forth",
      "                  In youthful pride,",
      "A Lindsay race of noble worth,",
      "                  Famed far and wide.",
      "",
      "",
      "Where, hid behind a spreading wood,",
      "An ancient Pict-built mansion stood,",
      "I spied, among an angel brood,",
      "                  A female pair;",
      "Sweet shone their high maternal blood,",
      "                  And father’s air. 1",
      "",
      "",
      "An ancient tower 2 to memory brought",
      "How Dettingen’s bold hero fought;",
      "Still, far from sinking into nought,",
      "                  It owns a lord",
      "Who far in western climates fought,",
      "                  With trusty sword.",
      "",
      "",
      "Among the rest I well could spy",
      "One gallant, graceful, martial boy,",
      "The soldier sparkled in his eye,",
      "                  A diamond water.",
      "I blest that noble badge with joy,",
      "                  That owned me frater. 3",
      "",
      "",
      "After 20th stanza of the text (at “Dispensing good”):—Near by arose a mansion fine 4",
      "The seat of many a muse divine;",
      "Not rustic muses such as mine,",
      "                  With holly crown’d,",
      "But th’ ancient, tuneful, laurell’d Nine,",
      "                  From classic ground.",
      "",
      "",
      "I mourn’d the card that Fortune dealt,",
      "To see where bonie Whitefoords dwelt; 5",
      "But other prospects made me melt,",
      "                  That village near; 6",
      "There Nature, Friendship, Love, I felt,",
      "                  Fond-mingling, dear!",
      "",
      "",
      "Hail! Nature’s pang, more strong than death!",
      "Warm Friendship’s glow, like kindling wrath!",
      "Love, dearer than the parting breath",
      "                  Of dying friend!",
      "Not ev’n with life’s wild devious path,",
      "                  Your force shall end!",
      "",
      "",
      "The Power that gave the soft alarms",
      "In blooming Whitefoord’s rosy charms,",
      "Still threats the tiny, feather’d arms,",
      "                  The barbed dart,",
      "While lovely Wilhelmina warms",
      "                  The coldest heart. 7",
      "",
      "",
      "After 21st stanza of the text (at “That, to adore”):—Where Lugar leaves his moorland plaid, 8",
      "Where lately Want was idly laid,",
      "I markèd busy, bustling Trade,",
      "                  In fervid flame,",
      "Beneath a Patroness’ aid,",
      "                  Of noble name.",
      "",
      "",
      "Wild, countless hills I could survey,",
      "And countless flocks as wild as they;",
      "But other scenes did charms display,",
      "                  That better please,",
      "Where polish’d manners dwell with Gray,",
      "                  In rural ease. 9",
      "",
      "",
      "Where Cessnock pours with gurgling sound; 10",
      "And Irwine, marking out the bound,",
      "Enamour’d of the scenes around,",
      "                  Slow runs his race,",
      "A name I doubly honour’d found, 11",
      "                  With knightly grace.",
      "",
      "",
      "Brydon’s brave ward, 12 I saw him stand,",
      "Fame humbly offering her hand,",
      "And near, his kinsman’s rustic band, 13",
      "                  With one accord,",
      "Lamenting their late blessed land",
      "                  Must change its lord.",
      "",
      "",
      "The owner of a pleasant spot,",
      "Near and sandy wilds, I last did note; 14",
      "A heart too warm, a pulse too hot",
      "                  At times, o’erran:",
      "But large in ev’ry feature wrote,",
      "                  Appear’d the Man.",
      "",
      "",
      " Note 1. Sundrum.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 2. Stair.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 3. Captain James Montgomerie, Master of St. James’ Lodge, Tarbolton, to which the author has the honour to belong.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 4. Auchinleck.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 5. Ballochmyle. [back]",
      "Note 6. Mauchline. [back]",
      "Note 7. Miss Wilhelmina Alexander. [back]",
      "Note 8. Cumnock.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 9. Mr. Farquhar Gray.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 10. Auchinskieth.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 11. Caprington.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 12. Colonel Fullerton.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 13. Dr. Fullerton.—R. B. [back]",
      "Note 14. Orangefield.—R. B. [back]"
    ],
    "linecount": "92"
  }
]