[
  {
    "title": "The Ash Grove",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "HALF of the grove stood dead, and those that yet",
      "   lived made",
      "Little more than the dead ones made of shade.",
      "If they led to a house, long before they had seen",
      "   its fall:",
      "But they welcomed me; I was glad without cause",
      "   and delayed.",
      "",
      "Scarce a hundred paces under the trees was the",
      "   Interval--",
      "Paces each sweeter than sweetest miles--but",
      "   nothing at all,",
      "Not even the spirits of memory and fear with",
      "   restless wing,",
      "Could climb down in to molest me over the wall",
      "",
      "That I passed through at either end without",
      "   noticing.",
      "And now an ash grove far from those hills can bring",
      "The same tranquillity in which I wander a ghost",
      "With a ghostly gladness, as if I heard a girl sing",
      "",
      "The song of the Ash Grove soft as love uncrossed,",
      "And then in a crowd or in distance it were lost,",
      "But the moment unveiled something unwilling",
      "   to die",
      "And I had what most I desired, without search or",
      "   desert or cost."
    ],
    "linecount": "25"
  }
]