[
  {
    "title": "Roads",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "I LOVE roads:",
      "The goddesses that dwell",
      "Far along invisible",
      "Are my favourite gods.",
      "",
      "Roads go on",
      "While we forget, and are",
      "Forgotten like a star",
      "That shoots and is gone.",
      "",
      "On this earth 'tis sure",
      "We men have not made",
      "Anything that doth fade",
      "So soon, so long endure:",
      "",
      "The hill road wet with rain",
      "In the sun would not gleam",
      "Like a winding stream",
      "If we trod it not again.",
      "",
      "They are lonely",
      "While we sleep, lonelier",
      "For lack of the traveller",
      "Who is now a dream only.",
      "",
      "From dawn's twilight",
      "And all the clouds like sheep",
      "On the mountains of sleep",
      "They wind into the night.",
      "",
      "The next turn may reveal",
      "Heaven: upon the crest",
      "The close pine clump, at rest",
      "And black, may Hell conceal.",
      "",
      "Often footsore, never",
      "Yet of the road I weary,",
      "Though long and steep and dreary",
      "As it winds on for ever.",
      "",
      "Helen of the roads,",
      "The mountain ways of Wales",
      "And the Mabinogion tales,",
      "Is one of the true gods,",
      "",
      "Abiding in the trees,",
      "The threes and fours so wise,",
      "The larger companies,",
      "That by the roadside be,",
      "",
      "And beneath the rafter",
      "Else uninhabited",
      "Excepting by the dead;",
      "And it is her laughter",
      "",
      "At morn and night I hear",
      "When the thrush cock sings",
      "Bright irrelevant things,",
      "And when the chanticleer",
      "",
      "Calls back to their own night",
      "Troops that make loneliness",
      "With their light footsteps' press,",
      "As Helen's own are light.",
      "",
      "Now all roads lead to France",
      "And heavy is the tread",
      "Of the living; but the dead",
      "Returning lightly dance:",
      "",
      "Whatever the road bring",
      "To me or take from me,",
      "They keep me company",
      "With their pattering,",
      "",
      "Crowding the solitude",
      "Of the loops over the downs,",
      "Hushing the roar of towns",
      "And their brief multitude."
    ],
    "linecount": "64"
  }
]