[
  {
    "title": "Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher's Tragi-Comedy 'The Fair Maid of the Inn'",
    "author": "John Keats",
    "lines": [
      "BARDS of Passion and of Mirth,",
      "Ye have left your souls on earth!",
      "Have ye souls in heaven too,",
      "Doubled-lived in regions new?",
      "Yes, and those of heaven commune",
      "With the spheres of sun and moon;",
      "With the noise of fountains wondrous,",
      "And the parle of voices thund'rous;",
      "With the whisper of heaven's trees",
      "And one another, in soft ease",
      "Seated on Elysian lawns",
      "Browsed by none but Dian's fawns;",
      "Underneath large blue-bells tented,",
      "Where the daisies are rose-scented,",
      "And the rose herself has got",
      "Perfume which on earth is not;",
      "Where the nightingale doth sing",
      "Not a senseless, tranced thing,",
      "But divine melodious truth;",
      "Philosophic numbers smooth;",
      "Tales and golden histories",
      "Of heaven and its mysteries.",
      "",
      "   Thus ye live on high, and then",
      "On the earth ye live again;",
      "And the souls ye left behind you",
      "Teach us, here, the way to find you,",
      "Where your other souls are joying,",
      "Never slumber'd, never cloying.",
      "Here, your earth-born souls still speak",
      "To mortals, of their little week;",
      "Of their sorrows and delights;",
      "Of their passions and their spites;",
      "Of their glory and their shame;",
      "What doth strengthen and what maim.",
      "Thus ye teach us, every day,",
      "Wisdom, though fled far away.",
      "",
      "   Bards of Passion and of Mirth,",
      "Ye have left your souls on earth!",
      "Ye have souls in heaven too,",
      "Double-lived in regions new!"
    ],
    "linecount": "40"
  }
]