The Turmoil

A Novel

(1915)

Dedicated to Laurel.

This is the first novel in Tarkington's Growth trilogy, which includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, re-titled National Avenue in 1927).

I will forget the things that sting:

The lashing look, the barbed word.

I know the very hands that fling

The stones at me had never stirred

To anger but for their own scars.

They've suffered so, that's why they strike.

I'll keep my heart among the stars

Where none shall hunt it out. Oh, like

These wounded ones I must not be,

For, wounded, I might strike in turn!

So, none shall hurt me. Far and free

Where my heart flies no one shall learn.

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