[
  {
    "title": "Peace",
    "author": "George Herbert",
    "lines": [
      "Sweet Peace, where dost thou dwell? I humbly crave,",
      "Let me once know.",
      "I sought thee in a secret cave,",
      "And ask'd, if Peace were there,",
      "A hollow wind did seem to answer, No:",
      "Go seek elsewhere.",
      "",
      "I did; and going did a rainbow note:",
      "Surely, thought I,",
      "This is the lace of Peace's coat:",
      "I will search out the matter.",
      "But while I looked the clouds immediately",
      "Did break and scatter.",
      "",
      "Then went I to a garden and did spy",
      "A gallant flower,",
      "The crown-imperial: Sure, said I,",
      "Peace at the root must dwell.",
      "But when I digged, I saw a worm devour",
      "What showed so well.",
      "",
      "At length I met a rev'rend good old man;",
      "Whom when for Peace",
      "",
      "I did demand, he thus began:",
      "There was a Prince of old",
      "At Salem dwelt, who lived with good increase",
      "Of flock and fold.",
      "",
      "He sweetly lived; yet sweetness did not save",
      "His life from foes.",
      "But after death out of his grave",
      "There sprang twelve stalks of wheat;",
      "Which many wond'ring at, got some of those",
      "To plant and set.",
      "",
      "It prospered strangely, and did soon disperse",
      "Through all the earth:",
      "For they that taste it do rehearse",
      "That virtue lies therein;",
      "A secret virtue, bringing peace and mirth",
      "By flight of sin.",
      "",
      "Take of this grain, which in my garden grows,",
      "And grows for you;",
      "Make bread of it: and that repose",
      "And peace, which ev'ry where",
      "With so much earnestness you do pursue,",
      "Is only there."
    ],
    "linecount": "42"
  },
  {
    "title": "Peace",
    "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins",
    "lines": [
      "When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,",
      "Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?",
      "When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I'll not play hypocrite",
      "To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but",
      "That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure peace allows",
      "Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?",
      "",
      "O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu",
      "Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,",
      "That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house",
      "He comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,",
      "        He comes to brood and sit."
    ],
    "linecount": "11"
  },
  {
    "title": "Peace",
    "author": "Henry Vaughan",
    "lines": [
      "My Soul, there is a country",
      "Afar beyond the stars,",
      "Where stands a winged sentry",
      "All skillful in the wars;",
      "There, above noise and danger",
      "Sweet Peace sits, crown'd with smiles,",
      "And One born in a manger",
      "Commands the beauteous files.",
      "He is thy gracious friend",
      "And (O my Soul awake!)",
      "Did in pure love descend,",
      "To die here for thy sake.",
      "If thou canst get but thither,",
      "There grows the flow'r of peace,",
      "The rose that cannot wither,",
      "Thy fortress, and thy ease.",
      "Leave then thy foolish ranges,",
      "For none can thee secure,",
      "But One, who never changes,",
      "Thy God, thy life, thy cure."
    ],
    "linecount": "20"
  },
  {
    "title": "Peace",
    "author": "Rupert Brooke",
    "lines": [
      "Now, God be thanked Who has watched us with His hour,",
      "And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping,",
      "With hand made sure, clear eye, and sharpened power,",
      "To turn, as swimmers into cleanness leaping,",
      "Glad from a world grown old and cold and weary,",
      "Leave the sick hearts that honour could not move,",
      "And half-men, and their dirty songs and dreary,",
      "And all the little emptiness of love!",
      "",
      "Oh! we, who have known shame, we have found release there,",
      "Where there's no ill, no grief, but sleep has mending,",
      "Naught broken save this body, lost but breath;",
      "Nothing to shake the laughing heart's long peace there",
      "But only agony, and that has ending;",
      "And the worst friend and enemy is but Death."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]