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Poems by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Days of Future Dwell
by Samuel Amadon
He Foretells His Passing
by F. D. Reeve
Sci-Fi
by Tracy K. Smith
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by Li-Young Lee
Untranslatable Song
by Claudia Reder
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"Oh could I raise the darken'd veil"

 
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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



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