[
  {
    "title": "To Heaven",
    "author": "Ben Jonson",
    "lines": [
      "Good and great God, can I not think of thee",
      "But it must straight my melancholy be?",
      "Is it interpreted in me disease",
      "That, laden with my sins, I seek for ease?",
      "Oh be thou witness, that the reins dost know",
      "And hearts of all, if I be sad for show,",
      "And judge me after; if I dare pretend",
      "To ought but grace or aim at other end.",
      "As thou art all, so be thou all to me,",
      "First, midst, and last, converted one, and three;",
      "My faith, my hope, my love; and in this state",
      "My judge, my witness, and my advocate.",
      "Where have I been this while exil'd from thee?",
      "And whither rap'd, now thou but stoop'st to me?",
      "Dwell, dwell here still. O, being everywhere,",
      "How can I doubt to find thee ever here?",
      "I know my state, both full of shame and scorn,",
      "Conceiv'd in sin, and unto labour borne,",
      "Standing with fear, and must with horror fall,",
      "And destin'd unto judgment, after all.",
      "I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground",
      "Upon my flesh t' inflict another wound.",
      "Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death",
      "With holy Paul, lest it be thought the breath",
      "Of discontent; or that these prayers be",
      "For weariness of life, not love of thee."
    ],
    "linecount": "26"
  },
  {
    "title": "To Heaven",
    "author": "Robert Herrick",
    "lines": [
      "Open thy gates",
      "To him who weeping waits,",
      "And might come in,",
      "But that held back by sin.",
      "Let mercy be",
      "So kind, to set me free,",
      "And I will straight",
      "Come in, or force the gate."
    ],
    "linecount": "8"
  }
]