[
  {
    "title": "The Mountain Chapel",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "CHAPEL and gravestones, old and few,",
      "Are shrouded by a mountain fold",
      "From sound and view",
      "Of life. The loss of the brook's voice",
      "Falls like a shadow. All they hear is",
      "The eternal noise",
      "Of wind whistling in grass more shrill",
      "Than aught as human as a sword,",
      "And saying still:",
      "\"'Tis but a moment since man's birth",
      "And in another moment more",
      "Man lies in earth",
      "For ever; but I am the same",
      "Now, and shall be, even as I was",
      "Before he came;",
      "Till there is nothing I shall be.\"",
      "Yet there the sun shines after noon",
      "So cheerfully",
      "The place almost seems peopled, nor",
      "Lacks cottage chimney, cottage hearth:",
      "It is not more",
      "In size than is a cottage, less",
      "Than any other empty home",
      "In homeliness.",
      "It has a garden of wild flowers",
      "And finest grass and gravestones warm",
      "In sunshine hours",
      "The year through. Men behind the glass",
      "Stand once a week, singing, and drown",
      "The whistling grass",
      "Their ponies munch. And yet somewhere,",
      "Near or far off, there's a man could",
      "Be happy here,",
      "Or one of the gods perhaps, were they",
      "Not of inhuman stature dire,",
      "As poets say",
      "Who have not seen them clearly; if",
      "At sound of any wind of the world",
      "In grass-blades stiff",
      "They would not startle and shudder cold",
      "Under the sun. When gods were young",
      "This wind was old."
    ],
    "linecount": "42"
  }
]