[
  {
    "title": "The Farewell",
    "author": "John Greenleaf Whittier",
    "lines": [
      "Of A Virginia Slave Mother To Her Daughters Sold Into Southern Bondage",
      "",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone.",
      "Where the slave-whip ceaseless swings",
      "Where the noisome insect stings",
      "Where the fever demon strews",
      "Poison with the falling dews",
      "Where the sickly sunbeams glare",
      "Through the hot and misty air;",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,",
      "From Virginia's hills and waters;",
      "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!",
      "",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone",
      "There no mother's eye is near them,",
      "There no mother's ear can hear them;",
      "Never, when the torturing lash",
      "Seams their back with many a gash",
      "Shall a mother's kindness bless them",
      "Or a mother's arms caress them.",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,",
      "From Virginia's hills and waters;",
      "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!",
      "",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,",
      "Oh, when weary, sad, and slow,",
      "From the fields at night they go",
      "Faint with toil, and racked with pain",
      "To their cheerless homes again,",
      "There no brother's voice shall greet them",
      "There no father's welcome meet them.",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,",
      "From Virginia's hills and waters;",
      "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!",
      "",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone",
      "From the tree whose shadow lay",
      "On their childhood's place of play;",
      "From the cool sprmg where they drank;",
      "Rock, and hill, and rivulet bank;",
      "From the solemn house of prayer,",
      "And the holy counsels there;",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,",
      "From Virginia's hills and waters;",
      "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!",
      "",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone;",
      "Toiling through the weary day,",
      "And at night the spoiler's prey.",
      "Oh, that they had earlier died,",
      "Sleeping calmly, side by side,",
      "Where the tyrant's power is o'er",
      "And the fetter galls no more!",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone;",
      "From Virginia's hills and waters",
      "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!",
      "",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone;",
      "By the holy love He beareth;",
      "By the bruised reed He spareth;",
      "Oh, may He, to whom alone",
      "All their cruel wrongs are known,",
      "Still their hope and refuge prove,",
      "With a more than mother's love.",
      "Gone, gone, -- sold and gone,",
      "To the rice-swamp dank and lone,",
      "From Virginia's hills and waters;",
      "Woe is me, my stolen daughters!"
    ],
    "linecount": "73"
  },
  {
    "title": "128. The Farewell",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "FAREWELL, old Scotia’s bleak domains,",
      "Far dearer than the torrid plains,",
      "  Where rich ananas blow!",
      "Farewell, a mother’s blessing dear!",
      "A borther’s sigh! a sister’s tear!",
      "  My Jean’s heart-rending throe!",
      "Farewell, my Bess! tho’ thou’rt bereft",
      "  Of my paternal care.",
      "A faithful brother I have left,",
      "  My part in him thou’lt share!",
      "    Adieu, too, to you too,",
      "      My Smith, my bosom frien’;",
      "    When kindly you mind me,",
      "      O then befriend my Jean!",
      "",
      "",
      "What bursting anguish tears my heart;",
      "From thee, my Jeany, must I part!",
      "  Thou, weeping, answ’rest—“No!”",
      "Alas! misfortune stares my face,",
      "And points to ruin and disgrace,",
      "  I for thy sake must go!",
      "Thee, Hamilton, and Aiken dear,",
      "  A grateful, warm adieu:",
      "I, with a much-indebted tear,",
      "  Shall still remember you!",
      "    All hail then, the gale then,",
      "      Wafts me from thee, dear shore!",
      "    It rustles, and whistles",
      "      I’ll never see thee more!"
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "115. The Farewell to the Brethren of St. James’s Lodge, Tarbolton",
    "author": "Robert Burns",
    "lines": [
      "ADIEU! a heart-warm fond adieu;",
      "  Dear brothers of the mystic tie!",
      "Ye favourèd, enlighten’d few,",
      "  Companions of my social joy;",
      "Tho’ I to foreign lands must hie,",
      "  Pursuing Fortune’s slidd’ry ba’;",
      "With melting heart, and brimful eye,",
      "  I’ll mind you still, tho’ far awa.",
      "",
      "",
      "Oft have I met your social band,",
      "  And spent the cheerful, festive night;",
      "Oft, honour’d with supreme command,",
      "  Presided o’er the sons of light:",
      "And by that hieroglyphic bright,",
      "  Which none but Craftsmen ever saw",
      "Strong Mem’ry on my heart shall write",
      "  Those happy scenes, when far awa.",
      "",
      "",
      "May Freedom, Harmony, and Love,",
      "  Unite you in the grand Design,",
      "Beneath th’ Omniscient Eye above,",
      "  The glorious Architect Divine,",
      "That you may keep th’ unerring line,",
      "  Still rising by the plummet’s law,",
      "Till Order bright completely shine,",
      "  Shall be my pray’r when far awa.",
      "",
      "",
      "And you, farewell! whose merits claim",
      "  Justly that highest badge to wear:",
      "Heav’n bless your honour’d noble name,",
      "  To Masonry and Scotia dear!",
      "A last request permit me here,—",
      "  When yearly ye assemble a’,",
      "One round, I ask it with a tear,",
      "  To him, the Bard that’s far awa."
    ],
    "linecount": "32"
  }
]