 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pagini
...TO SLEEP. BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as ot yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over... | |
 | 1876 - 832 pagini
...Time ! in thy flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night ; Mother, come back from the echolesa shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss...my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! " And when extreme old ago has enfeebled the mental powers,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1861 - 602 pagini
...Time, in yourflight, Make me a child again just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the ccholess shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss...of my hair, Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Koek me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep ! Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of years ! I am so weary... | |
 | 1861 - 144 pagini
...Lowell BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight ! Make me a child again, just for to-night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore • Take...care ; Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair j Over my slumbers your loving watch keep ; Hock me to sleep, mother — rock me to sleep ! Backward,... | |
 | 1861 - 404 pagini
...your flight, Make me a child again—just for to night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, v Take me again to your heart as of yore;• Kiss from...my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep — Rock me to sleep, Mother—rock me to sleep! Backward, flow backward, O swift ti;le of years !... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1861 - 788 pagini
...BACKWARD, turn backward, 0 TIM« ! in rour Sight, Make me a child again — just for to-night ! MOTHIB, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart aa of yore : Kias from my forehead the furrows of care, .Smooth the few silver thread« out of my hair... | |
 | 1723 - 216 pagini
...TO SLEEP, MOTHER. JACKWARD, turn backward, 0 Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for a night ! Mother, come back from the echoless shore,...Bock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep. Backward, turn backward, 0 tide of my years ! I am so weary of toil and of tears ; Toil without recompense, tears... | |
 | William G. Stevenson - 1864 - 244 pagini
...for to-night ! Mother, come back from the far-distant shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, — Bock...— rock me to sleep. « Backward, flow backward, 0 tide of the years ! I am BO weary of toils and of tears, Toil without recompense, — tears all in... | |
 | 1864 - 258 pagini
...Time, in your flight! Make me a ehild again. j ust for to-night ! Mother, eome baek from the eeholess shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore— Kiss from my forehead the furrows of earo, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair— Over my slumbers your loving wateh keep — Roek... | |
 | Lydia M. Millard - 1865 - 276 pagini
...sings, — " Backward, turn backward, 0 Time in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night; Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore." I hear, through the half-open door, the deep full tones of the sweetest, richest manly voice, mingling... | |
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ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few... 
