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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!
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!
Approximate author period: c. 1832 AD · industrial
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- Elizabeth Akers Allen
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- Approximate author period: c. 1832 AD · industrial
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Rock me to sleep.
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