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1850–1919

TURQUOISE

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.

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TURQUOISE · Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Poetry Cove