[
  {
    "title": "On Retirement",
    "author": "Philip Freneau",
    "lines": [
      "A HERMIT'S house beside a stream",
      "  With forests planted round,",
      "Whatever it to you may seem",
      "More real happiness I deem",
      "  Than if I were a monarch crowned.",
      "",
      "A cottage I could call my own",
      "  Remote from domes of care;",
      "A little garden, walled with stone,",
      "The wall with ivy overgrown,",
      "  A limpid fountain near,",
      "",
      "Would more substantial joys afford,",
      "  More real bliss impart",
      "Than all the wealth that misers hoard,",
      "Than vanquished worlds, or worlds restored--",
      "  Mere cankers of the heart!",
      "",
      "Vain, foolish man! how vast thy pride,",
      "  How little can your wants supply!--",
      "'Tis surely wrong to grasp so wide--",
      "You act as if you only had",
      "  To triumph--not to die!"
    ],
    "linecount": "20"
  }
]