There Will Come Soft Rains

蒂斯代尔一九二〇年作。春雨、燕子与池蛙依旧喧闹，浑然不知人间的战火；纵使人类尽数消亡，春天仍会在黎明时醒来。自然的温柔，正是对战争最冷的回答。

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.