[
  {
    "title": "Brothers",
    "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins",
    "lines": [
      "How lovely the elder brother's",
      "Life all laced in the other's,",
      "Lóve-laced!—what once I well",
      "Witnessed; so fortune fell.",
      "When Shrovetide, two years gone,",
      "Our boys' plays brought on",
      "Part was picked for John,",
      "Young Jóhn: then fear, then joy",
      "Ran revel in the elder boy.",
      "Their night was come now; all",
      "Our company thronged the hall;",
      "Henry, by the wall,",
      "Beckoned me beside him:",
      "I came where called, and eyed him",
      "By meanwhiles; making my play",
      "Turn most on tender byplay.",
      "For, wrung all on love's rack,",
      "My lad, and lost in Jack,",
      "Smiled, blushed, and bit his lip;",
      "Or drove, with a diver's dip,",
      "Clutched hands down through clasped knees—",
      "Truth's tokens tricks like these,",
      "Old telltales, with what stress",
      "He hung on the imp's success.",
      "Now the other was bráss-bóld:",
      "Hé had no work to hold",
      "His heart up at the strain;",
      "Nay, roguish ran the vein.",
      "Two tedious acts were past;",
      "Jack's call and cue at last;",
      "When Henry, heart-forsook,",
      "Dropped eyes and dared not look.",
      "Eh, how áll rúng!",
      "Young dog, he did give tongue!",
      "But Harry—in his hands he has flung",
      "His tear-tricked cheeks of flame",
      "For fond love and for shame.",
      "  Ah Nature, framed in fault,",
      "There 's comfort then, there 's salt;",
      "Nature, bad, base, and blind,",
      "Dearly thou canst be kind;",
      "There dearly thén, deárly,",
      "I'll cry thou canst be kind."
    ],
    "linecount": "43"
  }
]