[
  {
    "title": "Freedom",
    "author": "Ambrose Bierce",
    "lines": [
      "Freedom, as every schoolboy knows,",
      "Once shrieked as Kosciusko fell;",
      "On every wind, indeed, that blows",
      "I hear her yell.",
      "",
      "She screams whenever monarchs meet,",
      "And parliaments as well,",
      "To bind the chains about her feet",
      "And toll her knell.",
      "",
      "And when the sovereign people cast",
      "The votes they cannot spell,",
      "Upon the pestilential blast",
      "Her clamors swell.",
      "",
      "For all to whom the power's given",
      "To sway or to compel,",
      "Among themselves apportion Heaven",
      "And give her Hell."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  },
  {
    "title": "Freedom",
    "author": "Helen Hunt Jackson",
    "lines": [
      "What freeman knoweth freedom? Never he",
      "Whose father's father through long lives have reigned",
      "O'er kingdoms which mere heritage attained.",
      "Though from his youth to age he roam as free",
      "As winds, he dreams not freedom's ecstacy.",
      "But he whose birth was in a nation chained",
      "For centuries; where every breath was drained",
      "From breasts of slaves which knew not there could be",
      "Such thing as freedom,--he beholds the light",
      "Burst, dazzling; though the glory blind his sight",
      "He knows the joy. Fools laugh because he reels",
      "And weilds confusedly his infant will;",
      "The wise man watching with a heart that feels",
      "Says: \"Cure for freedom's harms is freedom still.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]