[
  {
    "title": "The Truth About Horace",
    "author": "Eugene Field",
    "lines": [
      "It is very aggravating",
      "To hear the solemn prating",
      "Of the fossils who are stating",
      "That old Horace was a prude;",
      "When we know that with the ladies",
      "He was always raising Hades,",
      "And with many an escapade his",
      "Best productions are imbued.",
      "",
      "There's really not much harm in a",
      "Large number of his carmina,",
      "But these people find alarm in a",
      "Few records of his acts;",
      "So they'd squelch the muse caloric,",
      "And to students sophomoric",
      "They d present as metaphoric",
      "What old Horace meant for facts.",
      "",
      "We have always thought 'em lazy;",
      "Now we adjudge 'em crazy!",
      "Why, Horace was a daisy",
      "That was very much alive!",
      "And the wisest of us know him",
      "As his Lydia verses show him,--",
      "Go, read that virile poem,--",
      "It is No. 25.",
      "",
      "He was a very owl, sir,",
      "And starting out to prowl, sir,",
      "You bet he made Rome howl, sir,",
      "Until he filled his date;",
      "With a massic-laden ditty",
      "And a classic maiden pretty",
      "He painted up the city,",
      "And Maecenas paid the freight!"
    ],
    "linecount": "32"
  }
]