/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

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>The Spirit stood among the graves, and pointed down to One. He advanced towards it trembling. The Phantom was exactly as it had been, but he dreaded that he saw new meaning in its solemn shape.

>"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point," said the Clock, "answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?"

>Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.

>"Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," he continued. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me."

>The Spirit was immovable as ever.
>The fearful Clock crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave, OURO KRONII.

>"Is my beloved the woman who lay upon the bed?" he cried, upon his knees.

>The Spirit ever so silently nodded its cloaked head
>"No, Spirit! Oh no, no!"

>The finger still was there.
>"Spirit!" he cried, tight clutching at its robe, "hear me. I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope?"

>For the first time the hand appeared to shake.

>"Good Spirit," he pursued, as down upon the ground he fell before it: "Your nature intercedes for me, and pities me. Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me, by an altered life."

>The kind hand trembled.

>"There are some upon this earth of yours" returned the spirit, "who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived."
>"Perhaps..." the specter continued "Even those who once commit such hubris in the name of their perceived principles can be redeemed yet..."
>"Perhaps...your chains have still not been cast from the sins you may never come to realise"

most of it is ctrl+c, ctrl+v Dickens' Christmas carol but it works