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There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs singing in the pools 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
I love seeing the mayapples start to come up. It will still be awhile here, but the earliest signs of spring have finally arrived. What a lovely, if sobering, poem.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that the earliest signs of spring have arrived in your neck of the woods!
DeleteSpring is a-stirring! (I'd say I think a lot like Sara Teasdale.)
ReplyDeleteSara's poems are wonderful.
DeleteA lovely Spring poem, till the apocalyptic end...
ReplyDeleteWhat is featured in the last photo? A deciduous conifer perhaps?
Kind of like Sara herself who ended her own life.
DeleteA dwarf Larix of some sort.
Your podophyllum are so far ahead of mine!
ReplyDeleteIt's strange that I have some that haven't shown their heads yet and some that are quite a bit farther along. Crazy plants.
DeleteYou are the Podophyllum master, I think. Like Loree, your Pod people are way ahead of mine. I like the poem very much. It reminds me of all the times people say "Save the planet." We don't have to save the planet, we have to save ourselves. The planet will survive without us.
ReplyDeleteYes, there will be equilibrium on the planet in one way or another. It would be nice if humans could be part of it but in a few billion years, the planet itself will be gone. Here's an interesting scientific prediction of the end of time. https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA
DeleteI love this post.
ReplyDeleteI can only hope that the birds and the frogs and the natural world will survive the foolish humans who act as though they can reign supreme.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful poem... my sentiments exactly. And, I agree with Alison and Kris. I'm sick and tired of everything we do always benefitting humans and no other specie. Interesting that you have some Pods that are not showing yet. I have one of those, and until I read that, I had feared its demise. Maybe it IS dead, but at least now I have hope! The one I'm worried about is P. hexandrum. Do you have that one, and if so - how is it doing?
ReplyDeleteI do have P. hexandrum and it's always late to emerge and has never been as happy in my garden as the others.
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