[
  {
    "title": "Ulalume",
    "author": "Edgar Allan Poe",
    "lines": [
      "The skies they were ashen and sober;",
      "  The leaves they were crisped and sere--",
      "  The leaves they were withering and sere;",
      "It was night in the lonesome October",
      "  Of my most immemorial year;",
      "It was hard by the dim lake of Auber,",
      "  In the misty mid region of Weir--",
      "It was down by the dank tarn of Auber,",
      "  In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.",
      "",
      "Here once, through an alley Titanic.",
      "  Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul--",
      "  Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.",
      "These were days when my heart was volcanic",
      "  As the scoriac rivers that roll--",
      "  As the lavas that restlessly roll",
      "Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek",
      "  In the ultimate climes of the pole--",
      "That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek",
      "  In the realms of the boreal pole.",
      "",
      "Our talk had been serious and sober,",
      "  But our thoughts they were palsied and sere--",
      "  Our memories were treacherous and sere--",
      "For we knew not the month was October,",
      "And we marked not the night of the year--",
      "  (Ah, night of all nights in the year!)",
      "We noted not the dim lake of Auber--",
      "  (Though once we had journeyed down here)--",
      "Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber,",
      "  Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.",
      "",
      "And now as the night was senescent",
      "  And star-dials pointed to morn--",
      "  As the sun-dials hinted of morn--",
      "At the end of our path a liquescent",
      "  And nebulous lustre was born,",
      "Out of which a miraculous crescent",
      "  Arose with a duplicate horn--",
      "Astarte's bediamonded crescent",
      "  Distinct with its duplicate horn.",
      "",
      "And I said--\"She is warmer than Dian:",
      "  She rolls through an ether of sighs--",
      "  She revels in a region of sighs:",
      "She has seen that the tears are not dry on",
      "  These cheeks, where the worm never dies,",
      "And has come past the stars of the Lion",
      "  To point us the path to the skies--",
      "  To the Lethean peace of the skies--",
      "Come up, in despite of the Lion,",
      "  To shine on us with her bright eyes--",
      "Come up through the lair of the Lion,",
      "  With love in her luminous eyes.\"",
      "",
      "But Psyche, uplifting her finger,",
      "  Said--\"Sadly this star I mistrust--",
      "  Her pallor I strangely mistrust:--",
      "Oh, hasten!--oh, let us not linger!",
      "  Oh, fly!--let us fly!--for we must.\"",
      "In terror she spoke, letting sink her",
      "  Wings till they trailed in the dust--",
      "In agony sobbed, letting sink her",
      "  Plumes till they trailed in the dust--",
      "  Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.",
      "",
      "I replied--\"This is nothing but dreaming:",
      "  Let us on by this tremulous light!",
      "  Let us bathe in this crystalline light!",
      "Its Sibyllic splendor is beaming",
      "  With Hope and in Beauty to-night:--",
      "  See!--it flickers up the sky through the night!",
      "Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming,",
      "  And be sure it will lead us aright--",
      "We safely may trust to a gleaming",
      "  That cannot but guide us aright,",
      "  Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night.\"",
      "",
      "Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,",
      "  And tempted her out of her gloom--",
      "  And conquered her scruples and gloom;",
      "And we passed to the end of a vista,",
      "  But were stopped by the door of a tomb--",
      "  By the door of a legended tomb;",
      "And I said--\"What is written, sweet sister,",
      "  On the door of this legended tomb?\"",
      "  She replied--\"Ulalume--Ulalume--",
      "  'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!\"",
      "",
      "Then my heart it grew ashen and sober",
      "  As the leaves that were crisped and sere--",
      "  As the leaves that were withering and sere;",
      "And I cried--\"It was surely October",
      "  On _this_ very night of last year",
      "  That I journeyed--I journeyed down here--",
      "  That I brought a dread burden down here!",
      "  On this night of all nights in the year,",
      "  Ah, what demon has tempted me here?",
      "Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber--",
      "  This misty mid region of Weir--",
      "Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,--",
      "  This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir.\""
    ],
    "linecount": "94"
  }
]