[
  {
    "title": "To the Memory of the Brave Americans",
    "author": "Philip Freneau",
    "lines": [
      "Under General Greene, in South Carolina,",
      "    who fell in the action of September 8, 1781",
      "",
      "AT Eutaw Springs the valiant died;",
      "  Their limbs with dust are covered o'er--",
      "Weep on, ye springs, your tearful tide;",
      "  How many heroes are no more!",
      "",
      "If in this wreck or ruin, they",
      "  Can yet be thought to claim a tear,",
      "O smite your gentle breast, and say",
      "  The friends of freedom slumber here!",
      "",
      "Thou, who shalt trace this bloody plain,",
      "  If goodness rules thy generous breast,",
      "Sigh for the wasted rural reign;",
      "  Sign for the shepherds, sunk to rest!",
      "",
      "Stranger, their humble graves adorn;",
      "  You too may fall, and ask a tear;",
      "'Tis not the beauty of the morn",
      "  That proves the evening shall be clear.--",
      "",
      "They saw their injured country's woe;",
      "  The flaming town, the wasted field;",
      "Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;",
      "  They took the spear--but left the shield.",
      "",
      "Led by thy conquering genius, Greene,",
      "  The Britons they compelled to fly;",
      "None distant viewed the fatal plain,",
      "  None grieved, in such a cause to die--",
      "",
      "But, like the Parthian, famed of old,",
      "  Who, flying, still their arrows threw,",
      "These routed Britons, full as bold,",
      "  Retreated, and retreating slew.",
      "",
      "Now rest in peace, our patriot band,",
      "  Though far from nature's limits thrown,",
      "We trust they find a happier land,",
      "  A brighter sunshine of their own."
    ],
    "linecount": "34"
  }
]