[
  {
    "title": "The New Year",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "HE was the one man I met up in the woods",
      "That stormy New Year's morning; and at first",
      "    sight,",
      "Fifty yards off, I could not tell how much",
      "Of the strange tripod was a man. His body,",
      "Bowed horizontal, was supported equally",
      "By legs at one end, by a rake at the other:",
      "Thus he rested, far less like a man than",
      "His wheel-barrow in profile was like a pig.",
      "But when I saw it was an old man bent,",
      "At the same moment came into my mind",
      "The games at which boys bend thus, _High-",
      "    Cockalorum_,",
      "Or _Fly-the-garter_, and _Leap-frog_. At the sound",
      "Of footsteps he began to straighten himself;",
      "His head rolled under his cape like a tortoise's;",
      "He took an unlit pipe out of his mouth",
      "Politely ere I wished him \"A Happy New Year,\"",
      "And with his head cast upward sideways",
      "    Muttered--",
      "So far as I could hear through the trees' roar--",
      "\"Happy New Year, and may it come fastish, too,\"",
      "While I strode by and he turned to raking leaves."
    ],
    "linecount": "23"
  }
]