Soft Rains
from “Thoughts of Love and Life” - SSAA a cappella - text by Sara Teasdale - English - Medium - Premiered
“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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from “Thoughts of Love and Life” - SSAA a cappella - text by Sara Teasdale - English - Medium - Premiered
“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.”
Recording / mp3 sample:
from “Thoughts of Love and Life” - SSAA a cappella - text by Sara Teasdale - English - Medium - Premiered
“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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