A bit fatalistic, but my favorite war poem

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Inspired by myrtleneunice's poetic quote response to war:

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 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

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[mrthursday.livejournal.com]

The Martian chronicles was a collection of stories, including the one you mention (about the automated house right?).

It's one of my favourite short stories and very apt. Good choice Rashaka!

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[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Yep, it's the house one. I also, back in junior high, read another short story by him that broke my heart even more. It was all about this little girl who lived on Venus, where the sun only shown once every 7 years. And she remember what the sun was like before she'd moved to Venus, and had waited four years to see it again. That story almost had me crying.