[
  {
    "title": "A Thanksgiving to God for His House",
    "author": "Robert Herrick",
    "lines": [
      "Lord, Thou hast given me a cell",
      "Wherein to dwell;",
      "An little house, whose humble roof",
      "Is weather-proof;",
      "Under the spars of which I lie",
      "Both soft and dry;",
      "Where Thou my chamber for to ward",
      "Hast set a guard",
      "Of harmless thoughts, to watch and keep",
      "Me, while I sleep.",
      "Low is my porch as is my fate,",
      "Both void of state;",
      "And yet the threshold of my door",
      "Is worn by'th' poor,",
      "Who thither come, and freely get",
      "Good words, or meat;",
      "Like as my parlour, so my hall",
      "And kitchen's small;",
      "A little butterie and therein",
      "A little bin,",
      "Which keeps my little loaf of bread",
      "Unchipp'd, unflay'd;",
      "Some brittle sticks of thorn or briar",
      "Make me a fire,",
      "Close by whose living coal I sit,",
      "And glow like it.",
      "Lord, I confess too, when I dine,",
      "The pulse is Thine,",
      "And all those other bits that be",
      "There plac'd by Thee;",
      "The worts, the purslain, and the mess",
      "Of water-cress,",
      "Which of Thy kindness Thou hast sent;",
      "And my content",
      "Makes those, and my beloved beet,",
      "To be more sweet.",
      "'Tis Thou that crown'st my glitt'ring hearth",
      "With guiltless mirth;",
      "And giv'st me wassail bowls to drink,",
      "Spic'd to the brink.",
      "Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand",
      "That soils my land;",
      "And giv'st me, for my bushel sown,",
      "Twice ten for one;",
      "Thou mak'st my teeming hen to lay",
      "Her egg each day;",
      "Besides my healthful ewes to bear",
      "Me twins each year;",
      "The while the conduits of my kine",
      "Run cream (for wine.)",
      "All these, and better Thou dost send",
      "Me, to this end,",
      "That I should render, for my part,",
      "A thankful heart,",
      "Which, fir'd with incense, I resign",
      "As wholly Thine;",
      "But the acceptance, that must be,",
      "My Christ, by Thee."
    ],
    "linecount": "58"
  }
]