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There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) was an American poet. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri. The poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" was first published in 1918. The poem was inspired by World War I and the Spanish flu pandemic.
Photo: The ruins of an old pier in England. The sun is setting so the sky is blue and pink. We see the ocean.
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There Will Come Soft Rains

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pool 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.

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