Oh, could I raise the darken'd veil <br />Which hides my future life from me, <br />Could unborn ages slowly sail <br />Before my view -- and could I see <br />My every action painted there, <br />To cast one look I would not dare. <br />There poverty and grief might stand, <br />And dark Despair's corroding hand, <br />Would make me seek the lonely tomb <br />To slumber in its endless gloom. <br />Then let me never cast a look, <br />Within Fate's fix'd mysterious book.<br /><br />Nathaniel Hawthorne<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-darken-d-veil/
