| John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
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| Elizabeth Akers Allen. (18321911) |
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| 1 | Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night! |
| Rock me to sleep. |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | Behold, we live through all things,famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,but we can not die, Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn, Lo, all things can be borne! |
| Endurance. |
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