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The wind is full of memories;
It whispers low and clear
The sacred echoes of the past,
And brings the dead more near.

— Elizabeth Chase Allen Poems (1866)

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Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,
Make me a child again, just for to-night!

Poems (1866)

O flowers! the soul that faints or grieves
New comfort from your lips receives;
Sweet confidence and patient faith are hidden in your leaves.

Poems (1866)

Up the sky in silence holy
Comes the young moon slowly, slowly,
Softly with her light divine,
Filling, like a cup with wine.

Poems (1866)

Dawn of a brighter, whiter day
Than ever blessed us with its ray,—
A dawn beneath whose purer light all guilt and wrong shall fade away.

Poems (1866)

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,—
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain,—
Take them and give me my childhood again!

Poems (1866)

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