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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!”
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- Source:
- Rock me to sleep.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 64ca074c45caf1be88ae07aa37a211793d2430a567aafe3417f2cb203fab7fb6
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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