[
  {
    "title": "Mid-ocean in War-time",
    "author": "Joyce Kilmer",
    "lines": [
      "(For My Mother)",
      "",
      "The fragile splendour of the level sea,",
      "The moon's serene and silver-veiled face,",
      "Make of this vessel an enchanted place",
      "Full of white mirth and golden sorcery.",
      "Now, for a time, shall careless laughter be",
      "Blended with song, to lend song sweeter grace,",
      "And the old stars, in their unending race,",
      "Shall heed and envy young humanity.",
      "And yet to-night, a hundred leagues away,",
      "These waters blush a strange and awful red.",
      "Before the moon, a cloud obscenely grey",
      "Rises from decks that crash with flying lead.",
      "And these stars smile their immemorial way",
      "On waves that shroud a thousand newly dead!"
    ],
    "linecount": "15"
  }
]