[
  {
    "title": "No, Thank You John",
    "author": "Christina Rossetti",
    "lines": [
      "I never said I loved you, John:",
      "Why will you tease me day by day,",
      "And wax a weariness to think upon",
      "With always \"do\" and \"pray\"?",
      "",
      "You Know I never loved you, John;",
      "No fault of mine made me your toast:",
      "Why will you haunt me with a face as wan",
      "As shows an hour-old ghost?",
      "",
      "I dare say Meg or Moll would take",
      "Pity upon you, if you'd ask:",
      "And pray don't remain single for my sake",
      "Who can't perform the task.",
      "",
      "I have no heart?-Perhaps I have not;",
      "But then you're mad to take offence",
      "That don't give you what I have not got:",
      "Use your common sense.",
      "",
      "Let bygones be bygones:",
      "Don't call me false, who owed not to be true:",
      "I'd rather answer \"No\" to fifty Johns",
      "Than answer \"Yes\" to you.",
      "",
      "Let's mar our plesant days no more,",
      "Song-birds of passage, days of youth:",
      "Catch at today, forget the days before:",
      "I'll wink at your untruth.",
      "",
      "Let us strike hands as hearty friends;",
      "No more, no less; and friendship's good:",
      "Only don't keep in veiw ulterior ends, And points not understood",
      "",
      "In open treaty. Rise above",
      "Quibbles and shuffling off and on:",
      "Here's friendship for you if you like; but love,-",
      "No, thank you, John."
    ],
    "linecount": "31"
  }
]