Latest / O. Henryana / 001 - The Crucible
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Section one of O Henrianna. This is a LibriVox recording.
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- 0:13Speaker 1: by Phil Schampf. Oh Henrianna by O. Henry The Crucible
- 0:20Speaker 1: hard ye may be in the tumult, read to your
- 0:23Speaker 1: battle hilts, blow, give for blow in the foray, cunningly
- 0:28Speaker 1: ride in the tilts. But when the roaring is ended, tenderly, unbeguiled,
- 0:34Speaker 1: turn to a woman a woman's heart, and a child's
- 0:37Speaker 1: to a child. Test of the man, it is worth
- 0:41Speaker 1: be in accord with the ultimate plan, that he be
- 0:44Speaker 1: not to his marring always an utterly man, that he
- 0:48Speaker 1: bring out of the tumult, fitter and undefiled, to a woman,
- 0:53Speaker 1: the heart of a woman, to children, the heart of
- 0:56Speaker 1: a child. Good when the bugles are ranting, it is
- 1:00Speaker 1: is to be iron and fire, good, to be oak
- 1:03Speaker 1: in the foray, ic to a guilty desire. But when
- 1:07Speaker 1: the battle is over, marvel and wonder the while give
- 1:11Speaker 1: to a woman a woman's heart, and a child's to
- 1:14Speaker 1: a child. End of Section one