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6 Elizabeth Chase Allen Quotes

Elizabeth Chase Allen writes with wistful yearning, inviting readers to taste the ache of longing for a lost childhood.

Elizabeth Chase Allen quotes

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

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  2. 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!

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  3. Behold, we live through all things,-famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,-but we can not die, Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,- Lo, all things can be borne!

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  1. Carve not upon a stone when I am dead, The praises which remorseful mourners give; To women's graves - a tardy recompense, But speak them while I live.

  2. We do not die with those we mourn.

  3. Unremembered and afar I watched as I watched a star, Through darkness struggling into view And I loved you better than you knew.