[
  {
    "title": "The Gypsy",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "A FORTNIGHT before Christmas Gypsies were every-",
      "    where:",
      "Vans were drawn up on wastes, women trailed to",
      "    the fair.",
      "\"My gentleman,\" said one, \"You've got a lucky",
      "    face.\"",
      "\"And you've a luckier,\" I thought, \"if such a grace",
      "And impudence in rags are lucky.\" \"Give a penny",
      "For the poor baby's sake.\" \"Indeed I have not any",
      "Unless you can give change for a sovereign, my",
      "    dear.\"",
      "\"Then just half a pipeful of tobacco can you",
      "    spare?\"",
      "I gave it. With that much victory she laughed",
      "    content.",
      "I should have given more, but off and away she",
      "    went",
      "With her baby and her pink sham flowers to rejoin",
      "The rest before I could translate to its proper coin",
      "Gratitude for her grace. And I paid nothing then,",
      "As I pay nothing now with the dipping of my pen",
      "For her brother's music when he drummed the",
      "    tambourine",
      "And stamped his feet, which made the workmen",
      "    passing grin,",
      "While his mouth-organ changed to a rascally",
      "    Bacchanal dance",
      "\"Over the hills and far away.\" This and his glance",
      "Outlasted all the fair, farmer and auctioneer,",
      "Cheap-jack, balloon-man, drover with crooked",
      "    stick, and steer,",
      "Pig, turkey, goose, and duck, Christmas Corpses",
      "    to be.",
      "Not even the kneeling ox had eyes like the Romany.",
      "That night he peopled for me the hollow wooded",
      "    land,",
      "More dark and wild than stormiest heavens, that I",
      "    searched and scanned",
      "Like a ghost new-arrived. The gradations of the",
      "    dark",
      "Were like an underworld of death, but for the spark",
      "In the Gypsy boy's black eyes as he played and",
      "    stamped his tune,",
      "\"Over the hills and far away,\" and a crescent moon."
    ],
    "linecount": "44"
  }
]