[
  {
    "title": "Song to a Fair Young Lady Going Out of Town in the Spring",
    "author": "John Dryden",
    "lines": [
      "Ask not the cause why sullen spring",
      "    So long delays her flow'rs to bear;",
      "Why warbling birds forget to sing,",
      "    And winter storms invert the year?",
      "Chloris is gone; and Fate provides",
      "To make it spring where she resides.",
      "",
      "Chloris is gone, the cruel fair;",
      "    She cast not back a pitying eye:",
      "But left her lover in despair,",
      "  To sigh, to languish, and to die:",
      "Ah, how can those fair eyes endure",
      "To give the wounds they will not cure!",
      "",
      "Great god of Love, why hast thou made",
      "  A face that can all hearts command,",
      "That all religions can invade,",
      "  And change the laws of ev'ry land?",
      "Where thou hadst plac'd such pow'r before,",
      "Thou shouldst have made her mercy more.",
      "",
      "When Chloris to the temple comes,",
      "  Adoring crowds before her fall;",
      "She can restore the dead from tombs,",
      "  And ev'ry life but mine recall.",
      "I only am by love design'd",
      "To be the victim for mankind."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]