There Will Come Soft Rains

There Will Come Soft Rains

Text by Sara Teasdale Jessica Rudman (b. 1982)

Freely ca. q = 88

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p will come soft rains and the smell

mp of the

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3 earth, and swal lows

mf - circ ling - with their shim mer - ing - sound;

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mf 3 sing ing - in pools,

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mp wild

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mf 3 plum trees in

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pp 3 & Frogs

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f 3 bins - will wear their feath' ry fire

mp ling - their

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3 whims

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mf on a low fence wire And

p one would mind if man

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mf & whist

mp not one will know of the

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p not

pp one will care when at last

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mp per ished - ut ter - ly.

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p decresc. poco a poco al fine Spring her self - when she a

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mf it is done & Not

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