Poem: “Turquoise” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems of Sentiment

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Turquoise

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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.

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