[
  {
    "title": "Ike Walton's Prayer",
    "author": "James Whitcomb Riley",
    "lines": [
      "I crave, dear Lord,",
      "No boundless hoard",
      "Of gold and gear,",
      "Nor jewels fine,",
      "Nor lands, nor kine,",
      "Nor treasure-heaps of anything.-",
      "Let but a little hut be mine",
      "Where at the hearthstore I may hear",
      "The cricket sing,",
      "And have the shine",
      "Of one glad woman's eyes to make,",
      "For my poor sake,",
      "Our simple home a place divine;-",
      "Just the wee cot-the cricket's chirr-",
      "Love, and the smiling face of her.",
      "",
      "I pray not for",
      "Great riches, nor",
      "For vast estates, and castle-halls,-",
      "Give me to hear the bare footfalls",
      "Of children o’er",
      "An oaken floor,",
      "New-risen with sunshine, or bespread",
      "With but the tiny coverlet",
      "And pillow for the baby’s head;",
      "And pray Thou, may",
      "The door stand open and the day",
      "Send ever in a gentle breeze,",
      "With fragrance from the locust-trees,",
      "And drowsy moan of doves, and blur",
      "Of robin-chirps, and drove of bees,",
      "With afterhushes of the stir",
      "Of intermingling sounds, and then",
      "The good-wife and the smile of her",
      "Filling the silences again-",
      "The cricket’s call,",
      "And the wee cot,",
      "Dear Lord of all,",
      "Deny me not!",
      "",
      "I pray not that",
      "Men tremble at",
      "My power of place",
      "And lordly sway, -",
      "I only pray for simple grace",
      "To look my neighbor in the face",
      "Full honestly from day to day-",
      "Yield me this horny palm to hold,",
      "And I’ll not pray",
      "For gold;-",
      "The tanned face, garlanded with mirth,",
      "It hath the kingliest smile on earth-",
      "The swart brow, diamonded with sweat,",
      "Hath never need of coronet.",
      "And so I reach,",
      "Dear Lord, to Thee,",
      "And do beseech",
      "Thou givest me",
      "The wee cot, and the cricket’s chirr,",
      "Love, and the glad sweet face of her."
    ],
    "linecount": "58"
  }
]