...old dogs, and these lines, from the American old maid's address to her mamma — v " Backward, roll backward, O Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again Just for to-night," have occurred to me, and I have been illogical and sentimental enough to wish that it were possible...

...regulatory policies. It is too late in its development for the Commission to follow the poet who said; "Backward, turn backward, O time in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight!"* 'Elizabeth Akers Allen, Rock Me To Sleep, In The Beat Loved Poems of the American People, 371. Upon...

...TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight. Make mo a child again just for to-night I Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kind from my foreliea<l the furrows of care. Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my...

...to the sea; But the mother's woes were ended — Child and mother both were free. ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time ! in your flight; Make me a child again just for to-nu;ht! Mother, come back from that echolcss shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss...

...which alone shall caress thee ; Come to the heart that is throbbing to press thee. JOSEPH BRENAN. me to BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make...Take me again to your heart as of yore ; Kiss from my forhead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving...

...closes, and later, lulled by the monotones of cricket and katydid, hum those ever-melancholy lines — " Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night." PART IV. IN AUTUMN. & Cake-0ibe ©titing. HAVING been within the city's bounds for a week — for me...

...the words of an old and once popular song, in which the idea of functional reversion is embodied: " Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night!" And should he improvidently forget the trained nurse, lines from the same source may again refresh...

...whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you." In tired, lonely hours I am fain to say, — " Mother, come back from the echoless shore; Take me again to your heart as of yore ! " Mother in her later years was a great reader. She knew the works of Fletcher, Wesley, and Adam...

...and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. — Tennyson. " Backward, roll backward, O Time, in your flight ; Make me a child again, just for to-night." To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable...

...ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. —HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. 5. ROCK ME TO SLEEP. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make...the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out-of my hair ; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep; — Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me...