[
  {
    "title": "Prospice",
    "author": "Robert Browning",
    "lines": [
      "Fear death? to feel the fog in my throat,",
      "  The mist in my face,",
      "When the snows begin, and the blasts denote",
      "  I am nearing the place,",
      "The power of the night, the press of the storm,",
      "  The post of the foe;",
      "Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form,",
      "  Yet the strong man must go:",
      "For the journey is done and the summit attained,",
      "  And the barriers fall,",
      "Though a battle's to fight ere the guerdon be gained,",
      "  The reward of it all.",
      "I was ever a fighter, so--one fight more,",
      "  The best and the last!",
      "",
      "I would hate that death bandaged my eyes, and forbore,",
      "  And bade me creep past,",
      "No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers",
      "  The heroes of old,",
      "Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears",
      "  Of pain, darkness, and cold.",
      "For sudden the worst turns the best to the brave,",
      "  The black minute's at end,",
      "And the elements' rage, the fiend-voices that rave,",
      "  Shall dwindle, shall blend,",
      "Shall change, shall become first a peace out of pain,",
      "  Then a light, then thy breast,",
      "O thou soul of my soul! I shall clasp thee again,",
      "  And with God be the rest!"
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  }
]