When a hundred years are gone!
The Brave Old Oak.
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ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN. 1832- ——.
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!
Make me a child again, just for to-night!
Rock me to sleep.
Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,—