[
  {
    "title": "Before The Paling Of The Stars",
    "author": "Christina Rossetti",
    "lines": [
      "Before the winter morn,",
      "Before the earliest cock crow,",
      "Jesus Christ was born:",
      "Born in a stable,",
      "Cradled in a manger,",
      "In the world his hands had made",
      "Born a stranger.",
      "",
      "Priest and king lay fast asleep",
      "In Jerusalem;",
      "Young and old lay fast asleep",
      "In crowded Bethlehem;",
      "Saint and angel, ox and ass,",
      "Kept a watch together",
      "Before the Christmas daybreak",
      "In the winter weather.",
      "",
      "Jesus on his mother's breast",
      "In the stable cold,",
      "Spotless lamb of God was he,",
      "Shepherd of the fold:",
      "Let us kneel with Mary maid,",
      "With Joseph bent and hoary,",
      "With saint and angel, ox and ass,",
      "To hail the King of Glory."
    ],
    "linecount": "23"
  }
]