[
  {
    "title": "The Dream Called Life",
    "author": "Edward Fitzgerald",
    "lines": [
      "From the Spanish of Pedro Calderon de la Barca",
      "",
      "",
      "A dream it was in which I found myself.",
      "And you that hail me now, then hailed me king,",
      "In a brave palace that was all my own,",
      "Within, and all without it, mine; until,",
      "Drunk with excess of majesty and pride,",
      "Methought I towered so big and swelled so wide",
      "That of myself I burst the glittering bubble",
      "Which my ambition had about me blown,",
      "And all again was darkness. Such a dream",
      "As this, in which I may be walking now,",
      "Dispensing solemn justice to you shadows,",
      "Who make believe to listen; but anon",
      "Kings, princes, captains, warriors, plume and steel,",
      "Aye, even with all your airy theatre,",
      "May flit into the air you seem to rend",
      "With acclamations, leaving me to wake",
      "In the dark tower; or dreaming that I wake",
      "From this that waking is; or this and that,",
      "Both waking and both dreaming; such a doubt",
      "Confounds and clouds our moral life about.",
      "But whether wake or dreaming, this I know,",
      "How dreamwise human glories come and go;",
      "Whose momentary tenure not to break,",
      "Walking as one who knows he soon may wake,",
      "So fairly carry the full cup, so well",
      "Disordered insolence and passion quell,",
      "That there be nothing after to upbraid",
      "Dreamer or doer in the part he played;",
      "Whether tomorrow's dawn shall break the spell,",
      "Or the last trumpet of the Eternal Day,",
      "When dreaming, with the night, shall pass away."
    ],
    "linecount": "32"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Meadows In Spring",
    "author": "Edward Fitzgerald",
    "lines": [
      "'Tis a dull sight",
      "To see the year dying,",
      "When winter winds",
      "Set the yellow wood sighing:",
      "Sighing, oh! sighing.",
      "",
      "When such a time cometh,",
      "I do retire",
      "Into and old room",
      "Beside a bright fire:",
      "Oh, pile a bright fire!",
      "",
      "And there I sit",
      "Reading old things,",
      "Of knights and lorn damsels,",
      "While the wind sings—",
      "Oh, drearily sings!",
      "",
      "I never look out",
      "Nor attend to the blast;",
      "For all to be seen",
      "Is the leaves falling fast:",
      "Falling, falling!",
      "",
      "But close at the hearth,",
      "Like a cricket, sit I,",
      "Reading of summer",
      "And chivalry—",
      "Gallant chivalry!",
      "",
      "Then with an old friend",
      "I talk of our youth!",
      "How 'twas gladsome, but often",
      "Foolish, forsooth:",
      "But gladsome, gladsome!",
      "",
      "Or to get merry",
      "We sing some old rhyme,",
      "That made the wood ring again",
      "In summertime—",
      "Sweet summertime!",
      "",
      "Then go we to smoking,",
      "Silent and snug:",
      "Nought passes between us,",
      "Save a brown jug—",
      "Sometimes!",
      "",
      "And sometimes a tear",
      "Will rise in each eye,",
      "Seeing the two old friends",
      "So merrily—",
      "So merrily!",
      "",
      "And ere to bed",
      "Go we, go we,",
      "Down on the ashes",
      "We kneel on the knee,",
      "Praying together!",
      "",
      "Thus, then, live I,",
      "Till, 'mid all the gloom,",
      "By heaven! the bold sun",
      "Is with me in the room",
      "Shining, shining!",
      "",
      "Then the clouds part,",
      "Swallow soaring between;",
      "The spring is alive,",
      "And the meadows are green!",
      "",
      "I jump up, like mad,",
      "Break the old pipe in twain,",
      "And away to the meadows,",
      "The meadows again!"
    ],
    "linecount": "63"
  }
]