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O. Henryana

Seven Odds and Ends

Poetry and Short Stories

BY

O. Henry

Garden CityNew York

Doubleday, Page & Company

1920

Acknowledgement

For permission to republish much of the material contained in this volume, the publishers are indebted to Cosmopolitan, Everybody’s Magazine, Town Topics, and the Youth’s Companion.

Table of Contents

  1. The Crucible
  2. A Lunar Episode
  3. Three Paragraphs
  4. Bulger’s Friend
  5. A Professional Secret
  6. The Elusive Tenderloin
  7. The Struggle of the Outliers

O. Henryana

The Crucible

Hard ye may be in the tumult,
Red to your battle hilts,
Blow give for blow in the foray,
Cunningly ride in the tilts;
But when the roaring is ended
Tenderly, unbeguiled,
Turn to a woman a woman’s
Heart, and a child’s to a child.

Test of the man, if his worth be
In accord with the ultimate plan,
That he be not, to his marring,
Always and utterly man;
That he bring out of the tumult,
Fitter and undefiled,
To a woman the heart of a woman,
To children the heart of a child.

Good when the bugles are ranting
It is to be iron and fire;
Good to be oak in the foray,
Ice to a guilty desire.

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