Turquoise
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A baby went to heaven while it slept,
And, waking, missed its mother's arms, and wept.
Those angel tear-drops, falling earthward through
God's azure skies, into the turquoise grew.
Source Book
Poems of Sentiment
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Copyright 1911
Published by Gay And Hancock, Ltd., London



