Strophe

 1   2|       strange figure -- like a child: yet not so like a child
 2   2|       child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed
 3   2|      and being diminished to a child's proportions. Its hair,
 4   2|    said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends,
 5   2|     time, when yonder solitary child was left here all alone,
 6   2|       dear brother!'' said the child, clapping her tiny hands,
 7   2|     the boy. ~"Yes!'' said the child, brimful of glee. "Home,
 8   2|        to be a man!'' said the child, opening her eyes, "and
 9   2|       think, children.'' ~"One child,'' Scrooge returned. ~"True,''
10   2| themselves like one, but every child was conducting itself like
11   2|      the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man
12   3|        his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him
13   3|   unaltered by the Future, the child will die.'' ~"No, no,''
14   3|  millions like this poor man's child. Oh God! to hear the Insect
15   3|       had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow,
16   3|       had been familiar to the child who fetched Scrooge from
17   3|       its mighty Founder was a child himself. Stop! There was
18   4|       not a man, a woman, or a child, to say that he was kind
19   4|        quiet! ~""And he took a child, and set him in the midst
20   4|       his knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against
21   4|      Sunday. My little, little child!'' cried Bob. "My little
22   4|          cried Bob. "My little child!'' ~He broke down all at
23   4|     have helped it, he and his child would have been farther
24   4|     chair set close beside the child, and there were signs of
25   4|        he was a little, little child; we shall not quarrel easily