[
  {
    "title": "Vision of Belshazzar",
    "author": "George Gordon, Lord Byron",
    "lines": [
      "The King was on his throne,",
      "  The Satraps thronged the hall:",
      "A thousand bright lamps shone",
      "  O'er that high festival.",
      "A thousand cups of gold,",
      "  In Judah deemed divine--",
      "Jehovah's vessels hold",
      "  The godless Heathen's wine!",
      "",
      "In that same hour and hall,",
      "  The fingers of a hand",
      "Came forth against the wall,",
      "  And wrote as if on sand:",
      "The fingers of a man;--",
      "  A solitary hand",
      "Along the letters ran,",
      "  And traced them like a wand.",
      "",
      "The monarch saw, and shook,",
      "  And bade no more rejoice;",
      "All bloodless waxed his look,",
      "  And tremulous his voice.",
      "\"Let the men of lore appear,",
      "  The wisest of the earth,",
      "And expound the words of fear,",
      "  Which mar our royal mirth.\"",
      "",
      "Chaldea's seers are good,",
      "  But here they have no skill;",
      "And the unknown letters stood",
      "  Untold and awful still.",
      "And Babel's men of age",
      "  Are wise and deep in lore;",
      "But now they were not sage,",
      "  They saw--but knew no more.",
      "",
      "A captive in the land,",
      "  A stranger and a youth,",
      "He heard the King's command,",
      "  He saw that writing's truth.",
      "The lamps around were bright,",
      "  The prophecy in view;",
      "He read it on that night,--",
      "  The morrow proved it true.",
      "",
      "\"Belshazzar's grave is made,",
      "  His kingdom passed away.",
      "He, in the balance weighed,",
      "  Is light and worthless clay;",
      "The shroud, his robe of state,",
      "  His canopy the stone;",
      "The Mede is at his gate!",
      "  The Persian on his throne!\""
    ],
    "linecount": "48"
  }
]