[
  {
    "title": "Music on Christmas Morning",
    "author": "Anne Bronte",
    "lines": [
      "Music I love -­ but never strain",
      "Could kindle raptures so divine,",
      "So grief assuage, so conquer pain,",
      "And rouse this pensive heart of mine -­",
      "As that we hear on Christmas morn,",
      "Upon the wintry breezes borne.",
      "Though Darkness still her empire keep,",
      "And hours must pass, ere morning break;",
      "From troubled dreams, or slumbers deep,",
      "That music kindly bids us wake:",
      "It calls us, with an angel's voice,",
      "To wake, and worship, and rejoice;",
      "",
      "To greet with joy the glorious morn,",
      "Which angels welcomed long ago,",
      "When our redeeming Lord was born,",
      "To bring the light of Heaven below;",
      "The Powers of Darkness to dispel,",
      "And rescue Earth from Death and Hell.",
      "",
      "While listening to that sacred strain,",
      "My raptured spirit soars on high;",
      "I seem to hear those songs again",
      "Resounding through the open sky,",
      "That kindled such divine delight,",
      "In those who watched their flocks by night.",
      "",
      "With them, I celebrate His birth -­",
      "Glory to God, in highest Heaven,",
      "Good-will to men, and peace on Earth,",
      "To us a Saviour-king is given;",
      "Our God is come to claim His own,",
      "And Satan's power is overthrown!",
      "",
      "A sinless God, for sinful men,",
      "Descends to suffer and to bleed;",
      "Hell must renounce its empire then;",
      "The price is paid, the world is freed,",
      "And Satan's self must now confess,",
      "That Christ has earned a Right to bless:",
      "",
      "Now holy Peace may smile from heaven,",
      "And heavenly Truth from earth shall spring:",
      "The captive's galling bonds are riven,",
      "For our Redeemer is our king;",
      "And He that gave his blood for men",
      "Will lead us home to God again."
    ],
    "linecount": "42"
  }
]