There Will Come Soft Rains
(War Time)
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering1 sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night, And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins2 will wear their feathery fire Whistling their whims3 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 utterly4;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.