{"id":3941,"date":"2010-03-31T17:23:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T11:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3662"},"modified":"2010-03-31T17:23:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T11:53:01","slug":"there-will-come-soft-rains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/there-will-come-soft-rains\/","title":{"rendered":"There Will Come Soft Rains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"\/self-esteem-and-a-puddle\/\" title=\"Self-Esteem (and a Puddle)\">my last post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelullaby.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Kaleidoglide by Aishwarya\">Aishwarya<\/a> shot me an email pointing me to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains\" title=\"There Will Come Soft Rains -- Sara Teasdale\">this lovely little poem<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sara_Teasdale\" title=\"Sara Teasdale -- Wikipedia\">Sara Teasdale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>There Will Come Soft Rains<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by Sara Teasdale<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,<br \/>\nAnd swallows circling with their shimmering sound;<\/p>\n<p>And frogs in the pool singing at night,<br \/>\nAnd wild plum trees in tremulous white;<\/p>\n<p>Robins will wear their feathery fire,<br \/>\nWhistling their whims on a low fence-wire;<\/p>\n<p>And not one will know of the war, not one<br \/>\nWill care at last when it is done.<\/p>\n<p>Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,<br \/>\nIf mankind perished utterly;<\/p>\n<p>And Spring herself when she woke at dawn<br \/>\nWould scarcely know that we were gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among other things, this inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_%28short_story%29\" title=\"There Will Come Soft Rains -- Ray Bradbury\">a short story by Ray Bradbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Putting my editing hat on, aren&#8217;t those last two lines superfluous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading <a href=\"\"\/iublog\/article\/self-esteem-and-a-puddle\/\" title=\"Self-Esteem (and a Puddle)\">my last post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluelullaby.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"Kaleidoglide by Aishwarya\">Aishwarya<\/a> shot me an email pointing me to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains\" title=\"There Will Come Soft Rains -- Sara Teasdale\">this lovely little poem<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sara_Teasdale\" title=\"Sara Teasdale -- Wikipedia\">Sara Teasdale<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>There Will Come Soft Rains<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by Sara Teasdale<\/i><\/p>\n<p>There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,<br \/>\nAnd swallows circling with their shimmering sound;<\/p>\n<p>And frogs in the pool singing at night,<br \/>\nAnd wild plum trees in tremulous white;<\/p>\n<p>Robins will wear their feathery fire,<br \/>\nWhistling their whims on a low fence-wire;<\/p>\n<p>And not one will know of the war, not one<br \/>\nWill care at last when it is done.<\/p>\n<p>Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,<br \/>\nIf mankind perished utterly;<\/p>\n<p>And Spring herself when she woke at dawn<br \/>\nWould scarcely know that we were gone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Among other things, this inspired <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/There_Will_Come_Soft_Rains_%28short_story%29\" title=\"There Will Come Soft Rains -- Ray Bradbury\">a short story by Ray Bradbury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Putting my editing hat on, aren&#8217;t those last two lines superfluous?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,39],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>There Will Come Soft Rains - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/there-will-come-soft-rains\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"There Will Come Soft Rains - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After reading my last post, Aishwarya shot me an email pointing me to this lovely little poem by Sara Teasdale: 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 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. 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