The document provides an overview and analysis of the poem "The Darken'd Veil" by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It includes three summaries: 1) The speaker in the poem talks about the possibility of seeing the future but decides he would not dare to look into Fate's book to see what may come of poverty, grief, or despair. 2) The poem uses end rhyme with pairs of words at the end of the lines rhyming. 3) The poem employs personification by describing concepts like poverty, grief, and despair as having human qualities like standing or having a hand.