[
  {
    "title": "The Twins",
    "author": "Robert Browning",
    "lines": [
      "Grand rough old Martin Luther",
      "   Bloomed fables-flowers on furze,",
      "The better the uncouther:",
      "   Do roses stick like burrs?",
      "",
      "A beggar asked an alms",
      "   One day at an abbey-door,",
      "Said Luther; but, seized with qualms,",
      "   The abbot replied, \"We're poor!\"",
      "",
      "\"Poor, who had plenty once,",
      "   When gifts fell thick as rain:",
      "But they give us nought, for the nonce,",
      "   And now should we give again?\"",
      "",
      "Then the beggar, \"See your sins!",
      "   Of old, unless I err,",
      "Ye had brothers for inmates, twins,",
      "   Date and Dabitur.",
      "",
      "\"While Date was in good case",
      "   Dabitur flourished too:",
      "For Dabitur's lenten face",
      "   No wonder if Date rue.",
      "",
      "\"Would ye retrieve the one?",
      "   Try and make plump the other!",
      "When Date's penance is done,",
      "   Dabitur helps his brother.",
      "",
      "\"Only, beware relapse!\"",
      "   The Abbot hung his head.",
      "This beggar might be perhaps",
      "   An angel, Luther said."
    ],
    "linecount": "28"
  }
]