[
  {
    "title": "A Pæan",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "How shall the burial rite be read?",
      "  The solemn song be sung?",
      "The requiem for the loveliest dead,",
      "  That ever died so young?",
      "",
      "Her friends are gazing on her,",
      "  And on her gaudy bier,",
      "And weep!--oh! to dishonor",
      "  Dead beauty with a tear!",
      "",
      "They loved her for her wealth--",
      "  And they hated her for her pride--",
      "But she grew in feeble health,",
      "  And they _love_ her--that she died.",
      "",
      "They tell me (while they speak",
      "  Of her \"costly broider'd pall\")",
      "That my voice is growing weak--",
      "  That I should not sing at all--",
      "",
      "Or that my tone should be",
      "  Tun'd to such solemn song",
      "So mournfully--so mournfully,",
      "  That the dead may feel no wrong.",
      "",
      "But she is gone above,",
      "  With young Hope at her side,",
      "And I am drunk with love",
      "  Of the dead, who is my bride.--",
      "",
      "Of the dead--dead who lies",
      "  All perfum'd there,",
      "With the death upon her eyes.",
      "  And the life upon her hair.",
      "",
      "Thus on the coffin loud and long",
      "  I strike--the murmur sent",
      "Through the gray chambers to my song,",
      "  Shall be the accompaniment.",
      "",
      "Thou diedst in thy life's June--",
      "  But thou didst not die too fair:",
      "Thou didst not die too soon,",
      "  Nor with too calm an air.",
      "",
      "From more than friends on earth,",
      "  Thy life and love are riven,",
      "To join the untainted mirth",
      "  Of more than thrones in heaven.--",
      "",
      "Therefore, to thee this night",
      "  I will no requiem raise,",
      "But waft thee on thy flight,",
      "  With a Pæan of old days."
    ],
    "linecount": "44"
  }
]