A theme of Spring for this month's WW1 Remembered
and this lovely poem by Sara Teasdale
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 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 (1884-1933) was an American writer and poet.
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Thanks, Josie - and yes, that is a lovely poem.
ReplyDeleteIt's my favourite, Susan and I've featured it a few times now on my Sunday WW1 spot.
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