Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary… - Elizabeth Akers Allen

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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

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Elizabeth Chase Allen (October 9, 1832, Strong, Maine – August 7, 1911, Tuckahoe, New York) was an American author, journalist and poet.

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Pen Names: Florence Percy

Alternative Names: Elizabeth Chase Allen • Elizabeth Akers • Elizabeth Ann Chase Akers Allen • Elizabeth Allen

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The wind is full of memories;
It whispers low and clear
The sacred echoes of the past,
And brings the dead more near.

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again, just for to-night!

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!

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… - Elizabeth Akers Allen

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