[
  {
    "title": "The Meadows in Spring",
    "author": "Edward Fitzgerald",
    "lines": [
      "'Tis a dull sight",
      "To see the year dying,",
      "When winter winds",
      "Set the yellow wood sighing:",
      "Sighing, oh! sighing.",
      "",
      "When such a time cometh,",
      "I do retire",
      "Into and old room",
      "Beside a bright fire:",
      "Oh, pile a bright fire!",
      "",
      "And there I sit",
      "Reading old things,",
      "Of knights and lorn damsels,",
      "While the wind sings—",
      "Oh, drearily sings!",
      "",
      "I never look out",
      "Nor attend to the blast;",
      "For all to be seen",
      "Is the leaves falling fast:",
      "Falling, falling!",
      "",
      "But close at the hearth,",
      "Like a cricket, sit I,",
      "Reading of summer",
      "And chivalry—",
      "Gallant chivalry!",
      "",
      "Then with an old friend",
      "I talk of our youth!",
      "How 'twas gladsome, but often",
      "Foolish, forsooth:",
      "But gladsome, gladsome!",
      "",
      "Or to get merry",
      "We sing some old rhyme,",
      "That made the wood ring again",
      "In summertime—",
      "Sweet summertime!",
      "",
      "Then go we to smoking,",
      "Silent and snug:",
      "Nought passes between us,",
      "Save a brown jug—",
      "Sometimes!",
      "",
      "And sometimes a tear",
      "Will rise in each eye,",
      "Seeing the two old friends",
      "So merrily—",
      "So merrily!",
      "",
      "And ere to bed",
      "Go we, go we,",
      "Down on the ashes",
      "We kneel on the knee,",
      "Praying together!",
      "",
      "Thus, then, live I,",
      "Till, 'mid all the gloom,",
      "By heaven! the bold sun",
      "Is with me in the room",
      "Shining, shining!",
      "",
      "Then the clouds part,",
      "Swallow soaring between;",
      "The spring is alive,",
      "And the meadows are green!",
      "",
      "I jump up, like mad,",
      "Break the old pipe in twain,",
      "And away to the meadows,",
      "The meadows again!"
    ],
    "linecount": "63"
  }
]