Village of the Damned

"Soon I was able to see the eyes themselves.  I had forgotten how striking they were in the babies, and remembered them as yellow.  But they were more than that:  they had a quality of glowing gold.  Strange indeed, but, if one could disregard the strangeness, with a singular beauty.  They looked like living semiprecious stones."

-- John Wyndham, "The Midwich Cuckoos"