[
  {
    "title": "Holidays",
    "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow",
    "lines": [
      "The holiest of all holidays are those",
      "Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;",
      "The secret anniversaries of the heart,",
      "When the full river of feeling overflows;--",
      "The happy days unclouded to their close;",
      "The sudden joys that out of darkness start",
      "As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart",
      "Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!",
      "White as the gleam of a receding sail,",
      "White as a cloud that floats and fades in air,",
      "White as the whitest lily on a stream,",
      "These tender memories are;--a fairy tale",
      "Of some enchanted land we know not where,",
      "But lovely as a landscape in a dream."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Holidays",
    "author": "Jane Taylor",
    "lines": [
      "\"Ah! don't you remember, 'tis almost December,",
      "And soon will the holidays come;",
      "Oh, 'twill be so funny, I've plenty of money,",
      "I'll buy me a sword and a drum. \"",
      "",
      "Thus said little Harry, unwilling to tarry,",
      "Impatient from school to depart;",
      "But we shall discover, this holiday lover",
      "Knew little what was in his heart.",
      "",
      "For when on returning, he gave up his learning,",
      "Away from his sums and his books,",
      "Though playthings surrounded, and sweetmeats abounded,",
      "Chagrin still appear'd in his looks.",
      "",
      "Though first they delighted, his toys were now slighted,",
      "And thrown away out of his sight;",
      "He spent every morning in stretching and yawning,",
      "Yet went to bed weary at night.",
      "",
      "He had not that treasure which really makes pleasure,",
      "(A secret discover'd by few).",
      "You'll take it for granted, more playthings he wanted;",
      "Oh naught was something to do.",
      "",
      "We must have employment to give us enjoyment",
      "And pass the time cheerfully away;",
      "And study and reading give pleasure, exceeding",
      "The pleasures of toys and of play.",
      "",
      "To school now returning­to study and learning",
      "With eagerness Harry applied;",
      "He felt no aversion to books or exertion,",
      "Nor yet for the holidays sigh'd."
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  },
  {
    "title": "Christmas Holidays",
    "author": "Thomas Hood",
    "lines": [
      "Along the Woodford road there comes a noise",
      "Of wheels, and Mr. Rounding's neat post-chaise",
      "Struggles along, drawn by a pair of bays,",
      "With Reverend Mr. Crow and six small boys,",
      "Who ever and anon declare their joys",
      "With trumping horns and juvenile huzzas,",
      "At going home to spend their Christmas days,",
      "And changing learning's pains for pleasure's toys.",
      "Six weeks elapse, and down the Woodford way",
      "A heavy coach drags six more heavy souls,",
      "But no glad urchins shout, no trumpets bray,",
      "The carriage makes a halt, the gate-bell tolls,",
      "And little boys walk in as dull and mum",
      "As six new scholars to the Deaf and Dumb!"
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]