[
  {
    "title": "The Schoolboy",
    "author": "William Blake",
    "lines": [
      "I love to rise on a summer morn,",
      "  When birds are singing on every tree;",
      "The distant huntsman winds his horn,",
      "  And the skylark sings with me:",
      "  Oh what sweet company!",
      "",
      "But to go to school in a summer morn,--",
      "  Oh it drives all joy away!",
      "Under a cruel eye outworn,",
      "  The little ones spend the day",
      "  In sighing and dismay.",
      "",
      "Ah then at times I drooping sit,",
      "  And spend many an anxious hour;",
      "Nor in my book can I take delight,",
      "  Nor sit in learning's bower,",
      "  Worn through with the dreary shower.",
      "",
      "How can the bird that is born for joy",
      "  Sit in a cage and sing?",
      "How can a child, when fears annoy,",
      "  But droop his tender wing,",
      "  And forget his youthful spring?",
      "",
      "Oh father and mother, if buds are nipped,",
      "  And blossoms blown away;",
      "And if the tender plants are stripped",
      "  Of their joy in the springing day,",
      "  By sorrow and care's dismay,--",
      "",
      "How shall the summer arise in joy,",
      "  Or the summer fruits appear?",
      "Or how shall we gather what griefs destroy,",
      "  Or bless the mellowing year,",
      "  When the blasts of winter appear?"
    ],
    "linecount": "30"
  }
]