Not one would mind neither bird nor tree me if mankind perished utterly and Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, would scarcely know that we were gone
Jacob Ramirez
@tra_jake · 0:45
There will Come Soft Rains is a lyric poem by Sarah Teasdale published just after the start of the 1918 German spring offensive, during World War One and during the 1918 flu pandemic. It's about nature's establishment of a new, peaceful order. They'll be indifferent to the outcome of the war or mankind's extinction. The work was first published in the July 1918 issue of Harper's Monthly magazine and later revised and provided with the subtitle Wartime in her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 0:57
I Jacob. Thank you so much for reading this poem and also giving us some background. It's such a beautiful poem and I don't know her work and how timely and how evergreen this kind of poem is. Right. It's I can write it right now because there's war and there's the violation of the planet
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
Jacob Ramirez
@tra_jake · 1:09
It will hopefully get better. Time has really proved that it usually will. I mean, even during lockdown and COVID, it's insane how quickly the earth kind of took itself back. And one day it will again