[
  {
    "title": "Loss And Gain",
    "author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow",
    "lines": [
      "When I compare",
      "What I have lost with what I have gained,",
      "What I have missed with what attained,",
      "Little room do I find for pride.",
      "",
      "I am aware",
      "How many days have been idly spent;",
      "How like an arrow the good intent",
      "Has fallen short or been turned aside.",
      "",
      "But who shall dare",
      "To measure loss and gain in this wise?",
      "Defeat may be victory in disguise;",
      "The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
    ],
    "linecount": "12"
  },
  {
    "title": "Loss And Gain",
    "author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson",
    "lines": [
      "Virtue runs before the muse",
      "And defies her skill,",
      "She is rapt, and doth refuse",
      "To wait a painter's will.",
      "",
      "Star-adoring, occupied,",
      "Virtue cannot bend her,",
      "Just to please a poet's pride,",
      "To parade her splendor.",
      "",
      "The bard must be with good intent",
      "No more his, but hers,",
      "Throw away his pen and paint,",
      "Kneel with worshippers.",
      "",
      "Then, perchance, a sunny ray",
      "From the heaven of fire,",
      "His lost tools may over-pay,",
      "And better his desire."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]