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“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rock me to sleep.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9c004b0bc901641676da687f21b258bef13968578791802d32b42d9b78fc6be8
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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