[
  {
    "title": "February Afternoon",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "MEN heard this roar of parleying starlings, saw,",
      "  A thousand years ago even as now,",
      "  Black rooks with white gulls following the plough",
      "So that the first are last until a caw",
      "Commands that last are first again,--a law",
      "  Which was of old when one, like me, dreamed",
      "    how",
      "  A thousand years might dust lie on his brow",
      "Yet thus would birds do between hedge and shaw.",
      "",
      "Time swims before me, making as a day",
      "  A thousand years, while the broad ploughland",
      "    oak",
      "  Roars mill-like and men strike and bear the",
      "    stroke",
      "    Of war as ever, audacious or resigned,",
      "And God still sits aloft in the array",
      "  That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and",
      "    stone-blind."
    ],
    "linecount": "18"
  }
]