[
  {
    "title": "DamæTas",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "In law an infant, and in years a boy,",
      "In mind a slave to every vicious joy;",
      "From every sense of shame and virtue wean'd,",
      "In lies an adept, in deceit a fiend;",
      "Vers'd in hypocrisy, while yet a child;",
      "Fickle as wind, of inclinations wild;",
      "Woman his dupe, his heedless friend a tool;",
      "Old in the world, though scarcely broke from school;",
      "Damætas ran through all the maze of sin,",
      "And found the goal, when others just begin:",
      "Ev'n still conflicting passions shake his soul,",
      "And bid him drain the dregs of Pleasure's bowl;",
      "But, pall'd with vice, he breaks his former chain,",
      "And what was once his bliss appears his bane."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]