[
  {
    "title": "An Old Song",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "THE sun set, the wind fell, the sea",
      "Was like a mirror shaking:",
      "The one small wave that clapped the land",
      "A mile-long snake of foam was making",
      "Where tide had smoothed and wind had dried",
      "The vacant sand.",
      "",
      "A light divided the swollen clouds",
      "And lay most perfectly",
      "Like a straight narrow footbridge bright",
      "That crossed over the sea to me;",
      "And no one else in the whole world",
      "Saw that same sight.",
      "",
      "I walked elate, my bridge always",
      "Just one step from my feet:",
      "A robin sang, a shade in shade:",
      "And all I did was to repeat:",
      "\"I'll go no more a-roving",
      "With you, fair maid.\"",
      "",
      "The sailors' song of merry loving",
      "With dusk and sea-gull's mewing",
      "Mixed sweet, the lewdness far outweighed",
      "By the wild charm the chorus played:",
      "\"I'll go no more a-roving",
      "With you, fair maid:",
      "A-roving, a-roving, since roving's been my ruin,",
      "I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid.\"",
      "",
      "_In Amsterdam there dwelt a maid--",
      "Mark well what I do say--",
      "In Amsterdam there dwelt a maid",
      "And she was a mistress of her trade:",
      "I'll go no more a-roving",
      "With you, fair maid:",
      "A-roving, a-roving, since roving's been my ruin,",
      "I'll go no more a-roving with you, fair maid._"
    ],
    "linecount": "34"
  },
  {
    "title": "An Old Song",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "I WAS not apprenticed nor ever dwelt in famous",
      "     Lincolnshire;",
      "I've served one master ill and well much more than",
      "     seven year;",
      "And never took up to poaching as you shall quickly",
      "     find;",
      "  But 'tis my delight of a shiny night in the season",
      "     of the year.",
      "",
      "I roamed where nobody had a right but keepers and",
      "     squires, and there",
      "I sought for nests, wild flowers, oak sticks, and",
      "     moles, both far and near.",
      "And had to run from farmers, and learnt the",
      "     Lincolnshire song:",
      "    \"Oh, 'tis my delight of a shiny night in the",
      "     season of the year.\"",
      "",
      "I took those walks years after, talking with friend",
      "     or dear,",
      "Or solitary musing; but when the moon shone clear",
      "I had no joy or sorrow that could not be expressed",
      "By \"'Tis my delight of a shiny night in the",
      "     season of the year.\"",
      "",
      "Since then I've thrown away a chance to fight a",
      "     gamekeeper;",
      "And I less often trespass, and what I see or hear",
      "Is mostly from the road or path by day: yet still",
      "     I sing:",
      "    \"Oh, 'tis my delight of a shiny night in the",
      "     season of the year.\"",
      "",
      "For if I am contented, at home or anywhere,",
      "Or if I sigh for I know not what, or my heart",
      "     beats with some fear,",
      "It is a strange kind of delight to sing or whistle just:",
      "    \"Oh, 'tis my delight of a shiny night in the",
      "     season of the year.\"",
      "",
      "And with this melody on my lips and no one by to",
      "     care,",
      "Indoors, or out on shiny nights or dark in open air,",
      "I am for a moment made a man that sings out of",
      "     his heart:",
      "    \"Oh, 'tis my delight of a shiny night in the",
      "     season of the year.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "42"
  }
]