[
  {
    "title": "The Soldier",
    "author": "Gerard Manley Hopkins",
    "lines": [
      "Yes. Why do we бll, seeing of a soldier, bless him? bless",
      "Our redcoats, our tars? Both these being, the greater part,",
      "But frail clay, nay but foul clay. Here it is: the heart,",
      "Since, proud, it calls the calling manly, gives a guess",
      "That, hopes that, makesbelieve, the men must be no less;",
      "It fancies, feigns, deems, dears the artist after his art;",
      "And fain will find as sterling all as all is smart,",
      "And scarlet wear the spirit of wбr thйre express.",
      "",
      "Mark Christ our King. He knows war, served this soldiering through;",
      "He of all can handle a rope best. There he bides in bliss",
      "Now, and sйeing somewhйre some mбn do all that man can do,",
      "For love he leans forth, needs his neck must fall on, kiss,",
      "And cry 'O Christ-done deed! So God-made-flesh does too:",
      "Were I come o'er again' cries Christ 'it should be this'."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Soldier",
    "author": "Rupert Brooke",
    "lines": [
      "If I should die, think only this of me:",
      "That there's some corner of a foreign field",
      "That is for ever England. There shall be",
      "In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;",
      "A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,",
      "Gave once her flowers to love, her ways to roam;",
      "A body of England's, breathing English air,",
      "Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.",
      "And think, this heart, all evil shed away,",
      "A pulse in the eternal mind, no less",
      "Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;",
      "Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;",
      "And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,",
      "In hearts at peace, under an English heaven."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  },
  {
    "title": "The Soldier",
    "author": "John Clare",
    "lines": [
      "Home furthest off grows dearer from the way;",
      "And when the army in the Indias lay",
      "Friends' letters coming from his native place",
      "Were like old neighbours with their country face.",
      "And every opportunity that came",
      "Opened the sheet to gaze upon the name",
      "Of that loved village where he left his sheep",
      "For more contented peaceful folk to keep;",
      "And friendly faces absent many a year",
      "Would from such letters in his mind appear.",
      "And when his pockets, chafing through the case,",
      "Wore it quite out ere others took the place,",
      "Right loath to be of company bereft",
      "He kept the fragments while a bit was left."
    ],
    "linecount": "14"
  }
]