[
  {
    "title": "Across the Sea Along the Shore",
    "author": "Arthur Hugh Clough",
    "lines": [
      "Across the sea, along the shore,",
      "In numbers more and ever more,",
      "From lonely hut and busy town,",
      "The valley through, the mountain down,",
      "What was it ye went out to see,",
      "Ye silly folk Galilee?",
      "The reed that in the wind doth shake?",
      "The weed that washes in the lake?",
      "The reeds that waver, the weeds that float?",
      "A young man preaching in a boat.",
      "What was it ye went out to hear",
      "By sea and land from far and near?",
      "A teacher? Rather seek the feet",
      "Of those who sit in Moses' seat.",
      "Go humbly seek, and bow to them,",
      "Far off in great Jerusalem.",
      "From them that in her courts ye saw,",
      "Her perfect doctors of the law,",
      "What is it came ye here to note?",
      "A young man preaching in a boat.",
      "",
      "A prophet! Boys and women weak!",
      "Declare, or cease to rave;",
      "Whence is it he hath learned to speak?",
      "Say, who his doctrine gave?",
      "A prophet? Prophet wherefore he",
      "Of all in Israel tribes?",
      "He teacheth with authority,",
      "And not as do the Scribes."
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "There Is No God, the Wicked Sayeth",
    "author": "Arthur Hugh Clough",
    "lines": [
      "\"There is no God,\" the wicked saith,",
      "\"And truly it's a blessing,",
      "For what He might have done with us",
      "It's better only guessing.\"",
      "",
      "\"There is no God,\" a youngster thinks,",
      "\"or really, if there may be,",
      "He surely did not mean a man",
      "Always to be a baby.\"",
      "",
      "\"There is no God, or if there is,\"",
      "The tradesman thinks, \"'twere funny",
      "If He should take it ill in me",
      "To make a little money.\"",
      "",
      "\"Whether there be,\" the rich man says,",
      "\"It matters very little,",
      "For I and mine, thank somebody,",
      "Are not in want of victual.\"",
      "",
      "Some others, also, to themselves,",
      "Who scarce so much as doubt it,",
      "Think there is none, when they are well,",
      "And do not think about it.",
      "",
      "But country folks who live beneath",
      "The shadow of the steeple;",
      "The parson and the parson's wife,",
      "And mostly married people;",
      "",
      "Youths green and happy in first love,",
      "So thankful for illusion;",
      "And men caught out in what the world",
      "Calls guilt, in first confusion;",
      "",
      "And almost everyone when age,",
      "Disease, or sorrows strike him,",
      "Inclines to think there is a God,",
      "Or something very like Him."
    ],
    "linecount": "32"
  },
  {
    "title": "Through a Glass Darkly",
    "author": "Arthur Hugh Clough",
    "lines": [
      "What we, when face to face we see",
      "The Father of our souls, shall be,",
      "John tells us, doth not yet appear;",
      "Ah! did he tell what we are here!",
      "",
      "A mind for thoughts to pass into,",
      "A heart for loves to travel through,",
      "Five senses to detect things near,",
      "Is this the whole that we are here?",
      "",
      "Rules baffle instincts--instinct rules,",
      "Wise men are bad--and good are fools,",
      "Facts evil--wishes vain appear,",
      "We cannot go, why are we here?",
      "",
      "O may we for assurance's sake,",
      "Some arbitrary judgement take,",
      "And wilfully pronounce it clear,",
      "For this or that 'tis we are here?",
      "",
      "Or is it right, and will it do,",
      "To pace the sad confusion through,",
      "And say:--It doth not yet appear,",
      "What we shall be, what we are here?",
      "",
      "Ah yet, when all is thought and said,",
      "The heart still overrules the head;",
      "Still what we hope we must believe,",
      "And what is given us receive;",
      "",
      "Must still believe, for still we hope",
      "That in a world of larger scope,",
      "What here is faithfully begun",
      "Will be completed, not undone.",
      "",
      "My child, we still must think, when we",
      "That ampler life together see,",
      "Some true result will yet appear",
      "Of what we are, together, here."
    ],
    "linecount": "32"
  }
]