[
  {
    "title": "THE FUNERAL RITES OF THE ROSE",
    "author": "Robert Herrick",
    "lines": [
      "The Rose was sick, and smiling died;",
      "And, being to be sanctified,",
      "About the bed, there sighing stood",
      "The sweet and flowery sisterhood.",
      "Some hung the head, while some did bring,",
      "To wash her, water from the spring;",
      "Some laid her forth, while others wept,",
      "But all a solemn fast there kept.",
      "The holy sisters some among,",
      "The sacred dirge and trental sung;",
      "But ah! what sweets smelt everywhere,",
      "As heaven had spent all perfumes there!",
      "At last, when prayers for the dead,",
      "And rites, were all accomplished,",
      "They, weeping, spread a lawny loom,",
      "And closed her up as in a tomb."
    ],
    "linecount": "16"
  }
]