• rmuk@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    Sorry if this was already posted, but I didn’t see it:

    There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

    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.

    There’s also a short story by Ray Bradbury with the same title that quotes the poem.

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      17 hours ago

      I have the short story as read by Leonard Nimoy. it’s one of my most favorite Bradbury tales read by one of the best narrators of my childhood.

      I’m happy I downloaded it, as it seems to not be found on YouTube anymore…