[
  {
    "title": "From Paumanok Starting.",
    "author": "Walt Whitman",
    "lines": [
      "FROM Paumanock starting, I fly like a bird,",
      "Around and around to soar, to sing the idea of all;",
      "To the north betaking myself, to sing there arctic songs,",
      "To Kanada, till I absorb Kanada in myself—to Michigan then,",
      "To Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, to sing their songs, (they are inimitable;)",
      "Then to Ohio and Indiana to sing theirs—to Missouri and Kansas and Arkansas, to sing",
      "  theirs,",
      "To Tennessee and Kentucky—to the Carolinas and Georgia, to sing theirs,",
      "To Texas, and so along up toward California, to roam accepted everywhere;",
      "To sing first, (to the tap of the war-drum, if need be,)",
      "The idea of all—of the western world, one and inseparable.",
      "And then the song of each member of These States."
    ],
    "linecount": "12"
  }
]