[
  {
    "title": "I should have been too glad, I see",
    "author": "Emily Dickinson",
    "lines": [
      "I should have been too glad, I see,",
      "Too lifted for the scant degree",
      "Of life's penurious round;",
      "My little circuit would have shamed",
      "This new circumference, have blamed",
      "The homelier time behind.",
      "",
      "I should have been too saved, I see,",
      "Too rescued; fear too dim to me",
      "That I could spell the prayer",
      "I knew so perfect yesterday, --",
      "That scalding one, \"Sabachthani,\"",
      "Recited fluent here.",
      "",
      "Earth would have been too much, I see,",
      "And heaven not enough for me;",
      "I should have had the joy",
      "Without the fear to justify, --",
      "The palm without the Calvary;",
      "So, Saviour, crucify.",
      "",
      "Defeat whets victory, they say;",
      "The reefs in old Gethsemane",
      "Endear the shore beyond.",
      "'T is beggars banquets best define;",
      "'T is thirsting vitalizes wine, --",
      "Faith faints to understand."
    ],
    "linecount": 24,
    "source": "Project Gutenberg — Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12242)"
  }
]