There Will Come Soft Rains

Click heading above to hear the start of the 1977 BBC adaptation of "There Will Come Soft Rains''.

http://www.unz.org/Pub/Colliers-1950may06-00034?View=PDF&apages=0030

©WMG and Ray Bradbury

Wally Wood drew EC's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" for Weird Fantasy 17 (January-February 1953). Note Wood's error on page two, panel four: The garage door cannot open or close with the "waiting car" parked midway into the doorframe. (The caption is the same as Bradbury's original paragraph.) In panel five, "After a long wait, the door swung down again"... which would smash the hood of the car. To read Ray Bradbury's original story (first published in the May 6, 1950 issue of Collier's), go here. In the Collier's original, the story takes place on April 28, 1985. Later, the date was changed.

Listen to the 1956 X Minus One adaptation of "There Will Come Soft Rains''.

Peter Cotter's animated adaptation...



Russian 1984 animated adaptation...


There will fall soft rains
Sara Teasdale's poem...

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 (1920)