Strophe

1   1|        when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look
2   2|     eight, and regularly up to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It
3   2|       to twelve; then stopped. Twelve! It was past two when he
4   2|       have got into the works. Twelve! ~He touched the spring
5   2|        rapid little pulse beat twelve: and stopped. ~"Why, it
6   2|        to the sun, and this is twelve at noon!'' ~The idea being
7   2|   before you could have got to twelve, panting like race-horses. ~"
8   3| workhouses?'' ~The bell struck twelve. ~Scrooge looked about him