{
  "title": "La Guerre II",
  "first_line": "O sweet spontaneous",
  "text": "O sweet spontaneous\nearth how often have\nthe\ndoting\n\n      fingers of\nprurient philosphers pinched\nand\npoked\n\nthee\n,has the naughty thumb\nof science prodded\nthy\n\n   beauty     .how\noften have religions taken\nthee upon their scraggy knees\nsqueezing and\n\nbuffeting thee that thou mightest conceive\ngods\n    (but\ntrue\n\nto the incomparable\ncouch of death thy\nrhythmic\nlover\n\n     thou answerest\n\nthem only with\n\n               spring)",
  "slug": "la-guerre-ii",
  "description": "O sweet spontaneous",
  "seo_title": "O sweet spontaneous",
  "seo_description": "A poem by E. E. Cummings in “Tulips and Chimneys”",
  "html_url": "https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-chimneys/poem/la-guerre-ii/",
  "json_url": "https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-chimneys/poem/la-guerre-ii.json",
  "txt_url": "https://cummings.ee/book/tulips-and-chimneys/poem/la-guerre-ii.txt"
}