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Backward,turn backward,O Time,in your flight |
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Make me a child again just for tonight! |
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Mother,come back from the echoless shore, |
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Take me again to your heart as of yore |
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Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care |
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Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair |
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Over my slumbers your loving watch keep |
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Rock me to sleep, mother,rock me to sleep! |
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Backward,flow backward,O tide of the years! |
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I am so weary of toil and of tears,— |
| [00:37.71] |
Toil without recompense,tears all in vain |
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Take them,and give me my childhood again |
| [00:45.74] |
I have grown weary of dust and decay |
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Weary of flinging my soul-wealth away |
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Weary of sowing for others to reap |
| [00:54.81] |
Rock me to sleep,mother rock me to sleep! |
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Tired of the hollow,the base,the untrue |
| [01:06.51] |
Mother,O mother,my heart calls for you! |
| [01:09.51] |
Many a summer the grass has grown green |
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Blossomed and faded,our faces between |
| [01:15.63] |
Yet,with strong yearning and passionate pain |
| [01:19.15] |
Long I tonight for your presence again |
| [01:22.11] |
Come from the silence so long and so deep |
| [01:25.64] |
Rock me to sleep, mother,rock me to sleep! |
| [01:31.26] |
Come, let your brown hair,just lighted with gold |
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Fall on your shoulders again as of old |
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Let it drop over my forehead tonight |
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Shading my faint eyes away from the light |
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For with its sunny-edged shadows once more |
| [01:47.72] |
Happly will throng the sweet visions of yore |
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Lovingly, softly, its bright billows sweep |
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Rock me to sleep, mother, – rock me to sleep! |
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Mother, dear mother, the years have been long |
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Since I last listened your lullaby song |
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Sing, then, and unto my soul it shall seem |
| [02:14.32] |
Womanhood’s years have been only a dream. |
| [02:17.97] |
Clasped to your heart in a loving embrace |
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With your light lashes just sweeping my face |
| [02:25.90] |
Never hereafter to wake or to weep— |
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Rock me to sleep, mother– rock me to sleep! |
