[
  {
    "title": "House and Man",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "ONE hour: as dim he and his house now look",
      "As a reflection in a rippling brook,",
      "While I remember him; but first, his house.",
      "Empty it sounded. It was dark with forest boughs",
      "That brushed the walls and made the mossy tiles",
      "Part of the squirrels' track. In all those miles",
      "Of forest silence and forest murmur, only",
      "One house--\"Lonely!\" he said, \"I wish it were",
      "    lonely\"--",
      "Which the trees looked upon from every side,",
      "And that was his.",
      "",
      "                He waved good-bye to hide",
      "A sigh that he converted to a laugh.",
      "He seemed to hang rather than stand there, half",
      "Ghost-like, half like a beggar's rag, clean wrung",
      "And useless on the brier where it has hung",
      "Long years a-washing by sun and wind and rain.",
      "",
      "But why I call back man and house again",
      "Is that now on a beech-tree's tip I see",
      "As then I saw--I at the gate, and he",
      "In the house darkness,--a magpie veering about,",
      "A magpie like a weathercock in doubt."
    ],
    "linecount": "22"
  }
]