[
  {
    "title": "1819 New Year's Carrier's Address",
    "author": "Major Henry Livingston, Jr.",
    "lines": [
      "Believe me, dear patrons, I have wand'red too far,",
      "Without any compass, or planet or star;",
      "My dear native village I scarcely can see",
      "So I'll hie to my hive like the tempest-tost bee.",
      "Hail home! sacred home! to my soul ever dear;",
      "Abroad may be wonders but rapture is here.",
      "My future ambition will never soar higher",
      "Than the clean brushed hearth and convivial fire;",
      "Here I lounge at my pleasure, and bask at my ease,",
      "Full readily sooth'd, and desirous to please,",
      "As happy myself as I happy can be,",
      "I wish all the circle as happy as me.",
      "But hark what a clatter! the Jolly bells ringing,",
      "The lads and the lasses so jovially singing,",
      "Tis New-Years they shout and then haul me along",
      "In the mdist of their merry-make Juvenile throng;",
      "But I burst from their grasp: unforgetful of duty",
      "To first pay obeisence to wisdom and Beauty,",
      "My conscience and int'rest unite to command it,",
      "And you, my kind PATRONS, deserve & demand it.",
      "On your patience to trespass no longer I dare,",
      "So bowing, I wish you a Happy New Year."
    ],
    "linecount": "22"
  }
]