"There will come soft rains and the smell……" — Sara Teasdale
"There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pool 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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Sara Teasdale
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68 Quotes by Sara Teasdale
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Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
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Spend all you have for loveliness.
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