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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hark v. i.  To listen; to hearken. [Now rare, except in the imperative form used as an interjection, Hark! listen.]
 Hark away! Hark back! Hark forward! Sporting, cries used to incite and guide hounds in hunting.
 To hark back, to go back for a fresh start, as when one has wandered from his direct course, or made a digression.
    He must have overshot the mark, and must hark back.   --Haggard.
    He harked back to the subject.   --W. E. Norris.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hark back
      v : go back to something earlier; "This harks back to a previous
          remark of his" [syn: return, come back, recall]