There Will Come Soft Rains

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h1 id="id00248" style="margin-top: 6em"> "There Will Come Soft Rains"</h1> <p id="id00251" style="margin-top: 3em">  There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,<br/> And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;<br/></p> <p id="id00252">  And frogs in the pools singing at night,<br/> And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;<br/></p> <p id="id00253">  Robins will wear their feathery fire<br/> Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;<br/></p> <p id="id00254">  And not one will know of the war, not one<br/> Will care at last when it is done.<br/></p> <p id="id00255">  Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree<br/> If mankind perished utterly;<br/></p> <p id="id00256">  And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,<br/> Would scarcely know that we were gone.<br/></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />