Будет ласковый дождь, будет запах земли.
Щебет юрких стрижей от зари до зари,
И ночные рулады лягушек в прудах.
И цветение слив в белопенных садах;
И ни птица, ни ива слезы не прольёт,
Если сгинет с Земли человеческий род.
И весна… и Весна встретит новый рассвет.
Не заметив, что нас уже нет.

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pool 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