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Elizabeth Akers Allen. 1832- ——

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!

Make me a child again, just for to-night!

Rock me to sleep.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!

I am so weary of toil and of tears,—

Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!

Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Rock me to sleep.