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Written By: Silvana Safranko
Sponsored by: the 2025 National English Honor Society
There Will Come Soft Rains
Sara Teasdale
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,
Al 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.
The Local Lit Library is a page dedicated to introducing Saddle Brook High School students to powerful works of professional poetry. As members of the NEHS, one of our goals is to bring meaningful literary works into the daily lives of our peers. Featuring the Local Lit Library in the Falcon Flyer is one way we’ve chosen to do that. With this in mind, please take a moment to read and reflect on this edition’s poems, thoughtfully selected by the 2025 NEHS!
Sara Teasdale (1884–1933) was an American lyric poet known for her emotionally resonant and stylistically simple verse, who won the first Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1918 for her collection Love Songs.