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"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!"
Elizabeth Akers Allen / Rock me to sleep.

Rock me to sleep.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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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!"
Elizabeth Akers Allen / Rock me to sleep.

Rock me to sleep.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain

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