[
  {
    "title": "The Time I've Lost in Wooing",
    "author": "Thomas Moore",
    "lines": [
      "The time I've lost in wooing,",
      "In watching and pursuing",
      "The light that lies",
      "In woman's eyes,",
      "Has been my heart's undoing.",
      "Tho' Wisdom oft has sought me,",
      "I scorn'd the lore she brought me,",
      "My only books",
      "Were women's looks,",
      "And folly's all they taught me.",
      "",
      "Her smile when Beauty granted,",
      "I hung with gaze enchanted,",
      "Like him the Sprite",
      "Whom maids by night",
      "Oft meet in glen that's haunted.",
      "Like him, too, Beauty won me;",
      "But when the spell was on me,",
      "If once their ray",
      "Was turn'd away,",
      "O! winds could not outrun me.",
      "",
      "And are those follies going?",
      "And is my proud heart growing",
      "Too cold or wise",
      "For brillant eyes",
      "Again to set it glowing?",
      "No -- vain, alas! th' endeavour",
      "From bonds so sweet to sever: --",
      "Poor Wisdom's chance",
      "Against a glance",
      "Is now as weak as ever."
    ],
    "linecount": "30"
  }
]