[
  {
    "title": "The Little Cripple's Complaint",
    "author": "Ann Taylor",
    "lines": [
      "I'm a helpless cripple child,",
      "Gentle Christians, pity me;",
      "Once, in rosy health I smiled,",
      "Blithe and gay as you can be,",
      "And upon the village green",
      "First in every sport was seen.",
      "",
      "Now, alas! I'm weak and low,",
      "Cannot either work or play;",
      "Tottering on my crutches, slow,",
      "Thus I drag my weary way:",
      "Now no longer dance and sing,",
      "Gaily, in the merry ring.",
      "",
      "Many sleepless nights I live,",
      "Turning on my weary bed;",
      "Softest pillows cannot give",
      "Slumber to my aching head;",
      "Constant anguish makes it fly",
      "From my heavy, wakeful eye.",
      "",
      "And, when morning beams return,",
      "Still no comfort beams for me:",
      "Still my limbs with fever burn,",
      "Painful still my crippled knee.",
      "And another tedious day",
      "Passes slow and sad away.",
      "",
      "From my chamber-window high,",
      "Lifted to my easy-chair,",
      "I the village-green can spy,",
      "Once I used to frolic there,",
      "March, or beat my new-bought drum;",
      "Happy times! no more to come.",
      "",
      "There I see my fellows gay,",
      "Sporting on the daisied turf,",
      "And, amidst their cheerful play,",
      "Stopp'd by many a merry laugh;",
      "But the sight I scarce can bear,",
      "Leaning in my easy-chair.",
      "",
      "Let not then the scoffing eye",
      "Laugh, my twisted leg to see:",
      "Gentle Christians, passing by,",
      "Stop awhile, and pity me,",
      "And for you I'll breathe a prayer,",
      "Leaning in my easy-chair."
    ],
    "linecount": "42"
  }
]