There Will Come Soft Rains

Sara TeasdaleSara Teasdale

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(War Time)There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

Sara Teasdale
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Sara Teasdale

1884 - 1933/Female/AmericanA lyric poet who wrote collections mostly about her loneliness.

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