[
  {
    "title": "Euthanasia",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "When Time, or soon or late, shall bring",
      "  The dreamless sleep that lulls the dead,",
      "Oblivion! may thy languid wing",
      "  Wave gently o'er my dying bed!",
      "",
      "No band of friends or heirs be there,",
      "  To weep, or wish, the coming blow:",
      "No maiden, with dishevelled hair,",
      "  To feel, or feign, decorous woe.",
      "",
      "But silent let me sink to Earth,",
      "  With no officious mourners near:",
      "I would not mar one hour of mirth,",
      "  Nor startle Friendship with a fear.",
      "",
      "Yet Love, if Love in such an hour",
      "  Could nobly check its useless sighs,",
      "Might then exert its latest power",
      "  In her who lives, and him who dies.",
      "",
      "'Twere sweet, my Psyche! to the last",
      "  Thy features still serene to see:",
      "Forgetful of its struggles past,",
      "  E'en Pain itself should smile on thee.",
      "",
      "But vain the wish--for Beauty still",
      "  Will shrink, as shrinks the ebbing breath;",
      "And Woman's tears, produced at will,",
      "  Deceive in life, unman in death.",
      "",
      "Then lonely be my latest hour,",
      "  Without regret, without a groan;",
      "For thousands Death hath ceased to lower,",
      "  And pain been transient or unknown.",
      "",
      "\"Aye but to die, and go,\" alas!",
      "  Where all have gone, and all must go!",
      "To be the nothing that I was",
      "  Ere born to life and living woe!",
      "",
      "Count o'er the joys thine hours have seen,",
      "  Count o'er thy days from anguish free,",
      "And know, whatever thou hast been,",
      "  'Tis something better not to be."
    ],
    "linecount": "36"
  }
]