[
  {
    "title": "On the Universality and Other Attributes of the God of Nature",
    "author": "Philip Freneau",
    "lines": [
      "ALL that we see, about, abroad,",
      "What is it all, but nature's God?",
      "In meaner works discovered here",
      "No less than in the starry sphere.",
      "",
      "In seas, on earth, this God is seen;",
      "All that exist, upon Him lean;",
      "He lives in all, and never strayed",
      "A moment from the works He made:",
      "",
      "His system fixed on general laws",
      "Bespeaks a wise creating cause;",
      "Impartially He rules mankind",
      "And all that on this globe we find.",
      "",
      "Unchanged in all that seems to change,",
      "Unbounded space is His great range;",
      "To one vast purpose always true,",
      "No time, with Him, is old or new.",
      "",
      "In all the attributes divine",
      "Unlimited perfectings shine;",
      "In these enwrapt, in these complete,",
      "All virtues in that centre meet.",
      "",
      "This power doth all powers transcend,",
      "To all intelligence a friend,",
      "Exists, the greatest and the best",
      "Throughout all the worlds, to make them blest.",
      "",
      "All that He did He first approved,",
      "He all things into being loved;",
      "O'er all He made He still presides,",
      "For them in life, or death provides."
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "On Retirement",
    "author": "Philip Freneau",
    "lines": [
      "A HERMIT'S house beside a stream",
      "  With forests planted round,",
      "Whatever it to you may seem",
      "More real happiness I deem",
      "  Than if I were a monarch crowned.",
      "",
      "A cottage I could call my own",
      "  Remote from domes of care;",
      "A little garden, walled with stone,",
      "The wall with ivy overgrown,",
      "  A limpid fountain near,",
      "",
      "Would more substantial joys afford,",
      "  More real bliss impart",
      "Than all the wealth that misers hoard,",
      "Than vanquished worlds, or worlds restored--",
      "  Mere cankers of the heart!",
      "",
      "Vain, foolish man! how vast thy pride,",
      "  How little can your wants supply!--",
      "'Tis surely wrong to grasp so wide--",
      "You act as if you only had",
      "  To triumph--not to die!"
    ],
    "linecount": "20"
  },
  {
    "title": "Song of Thyrsis",
    "author": "Philip Freneau",
    "lines": [
      "THE turtle on yon withered bough,",
      "That lately mourned her murdered mate,",
      "Has found another comrade now--",
      "Such changes all await!",
      "Again her drooping plume is drest,",
      "Again she's willing to be blest",
      "And takes her lover to her nest.",
      "",
      "If nature has decreed it so",
      "With all above, and all below,",
      "Let us like them forget our woe,",
      "And not be killed with sorrow.",
      "If I should quit your arms to-night",
      "And chance to die before 't was light,",
      "I would advise you -- and you might --",
      "Love again to-morrow."
    ],
    "linecount": "15"
  },
  {
    "title": "To the Memory of the Brave Americans",
    "author": "Philip Freneau",
    "lines": [
      "Under General Greene, in South Carolina,",
      "    who fell in the action of September 8, 1781",
      "",
      "AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died;",
      "  Their limbs with dust are covered o'er--",
      "Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide;",
      "  How many heroes are no more!",
      "",
      "If in this wreck or ruin, they",
      "  Can yet be thought to claim a tear,",
      "O smite your gentle breast, and say",
      "  The friends of freedom slumber here!",
      "",
      "Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain,",
      "  If goodness rules thy generous breast,",
      "Sigh for the wasted rural reign;",
      "  Sign for the shepherds, sunk to rest!",
      "",
      "Stranger, their humble graves adorn;",
      "  You too may fall, and ask a tear;",
      "'Tis not the beauty of the morn",
      "  That proves the evening shall be clear.--",
      "",
      "They saw their injured country's woe;",
      "  The flaming town, the wasted field;",
      "Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;",
      "  They took the spear--but left the shield.",
      "",
      "Led by thy conquering genius, Greene,",
      "  The Britons they compelled to fly;",
      "None distant viewed the fatal plain,",
      "  None grieved, in such a cause to die--",
      "",
      "But, like the Parthian, famed of old,",
      "  Who, flying, still their arrows threw,",
      "These routed Britons, full as bold,",
      "  Retreated, and retreating slew.",
      "",
      "Now rest in peace, our patriot band,",
      "  Though far from nature's limits thrown,",
      "We trust they find a happier land,",
      "  A brighter sunshine of their own."
    ],
    "linecount": "34"
  }
]