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There Will Come Soft Rains

 

 

Urban Rain from Langston Hughes, Sara Teasdale Asks if Rain, Birds, or Spring will Notice When We are Gone Broadcast LIVE Wednesdays, 10 AM on https://player.enlightenradio.org Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case This Episode Recorded 11/08/.2023

There will Come Soft Rains

by Sara Teasdale

 

(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.

From The Language of Spring, edited by Robert Atwan,
published by Beacon Press, 2003.

 

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