[
  {
    "title": "Part of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book.",
    "author": "Alexander Pope",
    "lines": [
      "  Lest you should think that verse shall die,",
      "    Which sounds the silver Thames along,",
      "  Taught, on the wings of truth to fly",
      "    Above the reach of vulgar song;",
      "",
      "  Though daring Milton sits sublime,",
      "    In Spenser, native Muses play;",
      "  Nor yet shall Waller yield to time,",
      "    Nor pensive Cowley's moral lay.",
      "",
      "  Sages and chiefs long since had birth",
      "    Ere Caesar was, or Newton named;",
      "  These raised new empires o'er the earth,",
      "    And those, new heavens and systems framed.",
      "",
      "  Vain was the chief's, the sage's pride!",
      "    They had no poet, and they died.",
      "  In vain they schemed, in vain they bled!",
      "    They had no poet, and are dead."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]