Strophe

1   1|     night. He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it,
2   2|        visitor who drew them: as close to it as I am now to you,
3   2|        as if instead of being so close beside him, it were at a
4   3|        the Spirit. ~"You seek to close these places on the Seventh
5   3|        last of all. ~He sat very close to his father's side upon
6   3|       the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her. But she joined
7   3|     foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men,
8   4| Christmas. There was a chair set close beside the child, and there