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Rock Me to SleepBY ELIZABETH AKERS ALLENBackward, 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 of yore;Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care,Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair;Over my slumbers your loving watchContinue reading “Rock Me to Sleep , Mother : Elizabeth Akers Allen : : Mother Poems : :”