“What’s Christmas time…”
Stave 1
“What Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money”
“With old…”
Stave 2
“With old Fezziwig looking on. It was done in a minute”
“Are spirits’ lives…”
Stave 3
“Are spirits’ lives so short?” Asked Scrooge […] The time is drawing near.”
“Something informs me…”
“Something informs me that our parting moment is at hand. I know it, but I know not how.”
“The Time before…”
‘The Time before him was his own, to make amends in! I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future.”