[
  {
    "title": "I prayed, at first, a little Girl,",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "I prayed, at first, a little Girl,",
      "Because they told me to --",
      "But stopped, when qualified to guess",
      "How prayer would feel -- to me --",
      "",
      "If I believed God looked around,",
      "Each time my Childish eye",
      "Fixed full, and steady, on his own",
      "In Childish honesty --",
      "",
      "And told him what I'd like, today,",
      "And parts of his far plan",
      "That baffled me --",
      "The mingled side",
      "Of his Divinity --",
      "",
      "And often since, in Danger,",
      "I count the force 'twould be",
      "To have a God so strong as that",
      "To hold my life for me",
      "",
      "Till I could take the Balance",
      "That tips so frequent, now,",
      "It takes me all the while to poise --",
      "And then -- it doesn't stay --"
    ],
    "linecount": "21"
  }
]