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There Will Come Soft Rain

By Sara Teasdale (Lyrics) and Jonathon Adams (music)

The world without us

A recording is on Youtube.

Sheet music is available for purchase. Sheet music includes a piano part for rehearsal, but is intended as SATB chorus-only.

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Lyrics

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.

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