There Will Come Soft Rains Text by Sara Teasdale
Jessica Rudman (b. 1982)
Freely ca. q = 88 p
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Voice
& ˙ There
œ œ œ ˙™ will come soft rains
Œ œ œ œ ˙
œ œ bœ œ ™ œ œ™ œ™ ˙ and the smell
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j bœ bœ ˙
3 of the earth,
swal - lows
and
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circ -ling
Œ
with their shim - mer - ing sound;
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f mp
mf
. . . b œ b œ b œ ˙™
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™ & œ œJ œ b œ œ ˙
3
Œ œ œ œ ˙
j . . . ˙™ #œ nœ œ œ
˙ <n>œ œ œ ˙ ‰
b œ œ ™ œ. œ. œ. #˙ ™ J
‰
3
sing - ing in pools,
Frogs
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wild
plum trees
in lu - min - ous white;
Ro
-
bins
will wear their feath'ry fire
mf p
pp
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mp 3
. . . & œ œ œ
3
˙ <n>œ. œ. ™<n>-œ -œ ™ b-˙ ™ JJ
whist - ling their whims
p
on a
Ó
low fence wire.
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j œ œ<n>œ ™ œ œ œ œ œ b ˙ And not one will
know of the war,
j ‰ b œ œ œ b œ ™ <n>œ ™ œ ™b ˙ not one will care when at last
œ™ œ œ ™ R ˙ it
is
Ó™
done.
p descresc. poco a poco al fine 3 3
j & <n>œ b œ œ
. . j ˙ <n>œ œ b œ b œ b-œ œ ∑ œ™ œ
Not one would mind if man per - ished ut - ter- ly.
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œ
˙™
˙ bœ ˙ œ ˙ œ œœ
And Spring her - self when she a - woke
j - - - U∑ b œ b œ œ œ œ ™ œ œ ™ b˙™ œ
at dawn would scarce - ly know
*Music Can Be Transposed as Needed
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that we were gone.