Strophe

1 Pre| pleasantly, and no one wish to lay it. ~Their faithful Friend
2   2|       dream or not?'' ~Scrooge lay in this state until the
3   3|        came. All this time, he lay upon his bed, the very core
4   3|      returned the Spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who
5   4|  beneath a ragged sheet, there lay a something covered up,
6   4|      to a rich end, truly! ~He lay, in the dark empty house,
7   4|      name he had now to learn, lay underneath the ground. It
8   4|   Scrooge. ~"Am I that man who lay upon the bed?'' he cried,
9   5|     met; but he knew what path lay straight before him, and