[
  {
    "title": "Patience Taught By Nature",
    "author": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning",
    "lines": [
      "'O DREARY life,' we cry, ' O dreary life ! '",
      "And still the generations of the birds",
      "Sing through our sighing, and the flocks and herds",
      "Serenely live while we are keeping strife",
      "With Heaven's true purpose in us, as a knife",
      "Against which we may struggle ! Ocean girds",
      "Unslackened the dry land, savannah-swards",
      "Unweary sweep, hills watch unworn, and rife",
      "Meek leaves drop year]y from the forest-trees",
      "To show, above, the unwasted stars that pass",
      "In their old glory: O thou God of old,",
      "Grant me some smaller grace than comes to these !--",
      "But so much patience as a blade of grass",
      "Grows by, contented through the heat and cold."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]