"There Will Come Soft Rains" (with Julia Benzinger, mezzo-soprano)
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
Music by Steven Luksan, 2018
Poetry by Sara Teasdale
"There Will Come Soft Rains"
There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs singing at night
And wild plum-trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire
Whistling 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.
