[
  {
    "title": "The Flower",
    "author": "George Herbert",
    "lines": [
      "How fresh, O Lord, how sweet and clean",
      "Are thy returns! ev'n as the flowers in spring;",
      "To which, besides their own demean,",
      "The late-past frosts tributes of pleasure bring.",
      "Grief melts away",
      "Like snows in May,",
      "As if there were no such cold thing.",
      "",
      "Who would have thought my shrivelled heart",
      "Could have recovered greenness? It was gone",
      "Quite under ground; as flowers depart",
      "To see their mother-root, when they have blown;",
      "Where they together",
      "All the hard weather,",
      "Dead to the world, keep house unknown.",
      "",
      "These are thy wonders, Lord of power,",
      "Killing and quick'ning, bringing down to hell",
      "And up to heaven in an hour;",
      "Making a chiming of a passing-bell.",
      "We say amiss,",
      "This or that is:",
      "Thy word is all, if we could spell.",
      "",
      "O that I once past changing were,",
      "Fast in thy Paradise, where no flower can wither!",
      "Many a spring I shoot up fair,",
      "Off'ring at heav'n, growing and groaning thither:",
      "Nor doth my flower",
      "Want a spring shower,",
      "My sins and I joining together.",
      "",
      "But while I grow in a straight line,",
      "Still upwards bent, as if heav'n were mine own,",
      "Thy anger comes, and I decline:",
      "What frost to that? What pole is not the zone,",
      "Where all things burn,",
      "When thou dost turn,",
      "And the least frown of thine is shown?",
      "",
      "And now in age I bud again,",
      "After so many deaths I live and write;",
      "I once more smell the dew and rain,",
      "And relish versing: O my only light,",
      "It cannot be",
      "That I am he",
      "On whom thy tempests fell all night.",
      "",
      "These are thy wonders, Lord of love,",
      "To make us see we are but flowers that glide;",
      "Which when we once can find and prove,",
      "Thou hast a garden for us, where to bide.",
      "Who would be more,",
      "Swelling through store,",
      "Forfeit their Paradise by their pride."
    ],
    "linecount": "49"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Flower",
    "author": "Lord Alfred Tennyson",
    "lines": [
      "Once in a golden hour",
      "I cast to earth a seed.",
      "Up there came a flower,",
      "The people said, a weed.",
      "",
      "To and fro they went",
      "Thro' my garden bower,",
      "And muttering discontent",
      "Cursed me and my flower.",
      "",
      "Then it grew so tall",
      "It wore a crown of light,",
      "But thieves from o'er the wall",
      "Stole the seed by night.",
      "",
      "Sow'd it far and wide",
      "By every town and tower,",
      "Till all the people cried,",
      "\"Splendid is the flower!\"",
      "",
      "Read my little fable:",
      "He that runs may read.",
      "Most can raise the flowers now,",
      "For all have got the seed.",
      "",
      "And some are pretty enough,",
      "And some are poor indeed;",
      "And now again the people",
      "Call it but a weed."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]