Here's an interesting little conundrum:

I've been looking at Bradbury's various stories involving time and time travel, among which is the short story "Time in thy Flight".

I have also spotted the quotation "time in thy flight" in the text of one or more of his other short stories.

Not knowing the source of the quotation, I Googled it, and found it comes from a poem (Rock Me To Sleep) by Elisabeth Akers Allen.

Except... about half of the sources I have found give the opening line of the poem as:

Backward, turn backward, O Time in your flight,...

Anyone know what's going on here? Are there two versions of the Allen poem, or has half the population misremembered the opening line?

Perhaps Ray thought that "thy" was more poetic than "your".

Previous discussion here, but you probably already knew that.

Yes, I already knew that!

It's not just RB who uses "thy", so does half the planet. I'm just curious as to why some published versions say "thy" and some say "your".

Wonder if it's a common misquote such as "best-laid plans" for "best-laid schemes" in Robert Burns's "To a Mouse."