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There Will Come Soft Rains is a 12-line poem by Sara Teasdale in her collection Flame and Shadow published in 1920 (see 1920 in poetry). The poem imagines nature reclaiming a battlefield after the fighting is finished. The poem also alludes to the idea of human extinction by war (lines 10 and 12) which was not a commonplace idea until the invention of nuclear weapons 25 years later.

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