[
  {
    "title": "The Happiest Day",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "The happiest day--the happiest hour",
      "  My seared and blighted heart hath known,",
      "The highest hope of pride and power,",
      "  I feel hath flown.",
      "",
      "Of power! said I? Yes! such I ween",
      "  But they have vanished long, alas!",
      "The visions of my youth have been--",
      "  But let them pass.",
      "",
      "And pride, what have I now with thee?",
      "  Another brow may ev'n inherit",
      "The venom thou hast poured on me--",
      "  Be still my spirit!",
      "",
      "The happiest day--the happiest hour",
      "  Mine eyes shall see--have ever seen",
      "The brightest glance of pride and power",
      "  I feel have been:",
      "",
      "But were that hope of pride and power",
      "  Now offered with the pain",
      "Ev'n _then_ I felt--that brightest hour",
      "  I would not live again:",
      "",
      "For on its wing was dark alloy",
      "  And as it fluttered--fell",
      "An essence--powerful to destroy",
      "  A soul that knew it well."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]