[
  {
    "title": "The successful man has thrust himself",
    "author": "Stephen Crane",
    "lines": [
      "The successful man has thrust himself",
      "Through the water of the years,",
      "Reeking wet with mistakes --",
      "Bloody mistakes;",
      "Slimed with victories over the lesser,",
      "A figure thankful on the shore of money.",
      "Then, with the bones of fools",
      "He buys silken banners",
      "Limned with his triumphant face;",
      "With the skins of wise men",
      "He buys the trivial bows of all.",
      "Flesh painted with marrow",
      "Contributes a coverlet,",
      "A coverlet for his contented slumber.",
      "In guiltless ignorance, in ignorant guilt,",
      "He delivered his secrets to the riven multitude.",
      "\"Thus I defended: Thus I wrought.\"",
      "Complacent, smiling,",
      "He stands heavily on the dead.",
      "Erect on a pillar of skulls",
      "He declaims his trampling of babes;",
      "Smirking, fat, dripping,",
      "He makes speech in guiltless ignorance,",
      "Innocence."
    ],
    "linecount": "24"
  }
]