Anti-anxiety site

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Mirrored from Madam Nakamura-Branchevska.

I keep losing this site and re-finding it, so am going to put it here.

I like how the author, Marc Balaban, takes the same basic facts as Sara Teasdale, and turns the conclusion into a positive.

(War Time)

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.