There will come soft rains (Carlos Camejo)

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  • (Posted 2018-04-18)  CPDL #49385:   
Editor: Carlos Camejo (submitted 2018-04-18).   Score information: Letter, 8 pages, 399 kB   Copyright: CPDL
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General Information

Title: There Will Come Soft Rains
Composer: Carlos Camejo
Lyricist: Sara Teasdale

Number of voices: 6vv   Voicing: SSATBB

Genre: SecularMotet

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

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Description: There Will Come Soft Rains is a poem based on the reclaiming of nature after a war - it was written in the summer of 1918 just before the end of the First World War and about 25 years before the Second World War would wreak havoc on mankind. This piece reflects that sentiment.

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Original text and translations

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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.

Sara Teasdale, July 1918.