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God’s Richest Blessing

Backward, turn backward, Oh, time in your flight,

Give us a maiden with skirts not so tight

Give us a girl whose charms many or few,

Are not exposed by so much peek-a-boo.

Give us a maiden no matter what age,

Who won’t use the street for a vaudeville stage.

Give us a girl not so sharply in view,

Dress her in skirts that the sun won’t shine through.