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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight. Make me a child again just for to-night.
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Elizabeth Akers Allen
Born:
October 9, 1832
Died:
August 7, 1911
(aged 78)
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Elizabeth Anne Akers Allen, initially writing as Florence Percy and Elizabeth Akers, was an American poet and journalist.
Known for:
Rock Me to Sleep, Mother
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