The Topaz Story Book by  Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner

Wild Asters

Child

White and purple asters, watching by the brook,

Tell me where you got your starry eyes.

Asters

Dearie, in their play the baby angels took Blossoms from the garden of the skies.
Tossed them downward to us over heaven's wall, And we caught and kept them,—that is all.

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