[
  {
    "title": "Words",
    "author": "Edward Thomas",
    "lines": [
      "OUT of us all",
      "That make rhymes,",
      "Will you choose",
      "Sometimes--",
      "As the winds use",
      "A crack in a wall",
      "Or a drain,",
      "Their joy or their pain",
      "To whistle through--",
      "Choose me,",
      "You English words?",
      "",
      "I know you:",
      "You are light as dreams,",
      "Tough as oak,",
      "Precious as gold,",
      "As poppies and corn,",
      "Or an old cloak:",
      "Sweet as our birds",
      "To the ear,",
      "As the burnet rose",
      "In the heat",
      "Of Midsummer:",
      "Strange as the races",
      "Of dead and unborn:",
      "Strange and sweet",
      "Equally,",
      "And familiar,",
      "To the eye,",
      "As the dearest faces",
      "That a man knows,",
      "And as lost homes are:",
      "But though older far",
      "Than oldest yew,--",
      "As our hills are, old.--",
      "Worn new",
      "Again and again:",
      "Young as our streams",
      "After rain:",
      "And as dear",
      "As the earth which you prove",
      "That we love.",
      "",
      "Make me content",
      "With some sweetness",
      "From Wales",
      "Whose nightingales",
      "Have no wings,--",
      "From Wiltshire and Kent",
      "And Herefordshire,",
      "And the villages there,--",
      "From the names, and the things",
      "No less.",
      "",
      "Let me sometimes dance",
      "With you,",
      "Or climb",
      "Or stand perchance",
      "In ecstasy,",
      "Fixed and free",
      "In a rhyme,",
      "As poets do."
    ],
    "linecount": "59"
  }
]