Fallout 3: Mister Handy Recites a Poem

The Mister Handy is located in a house in George Town. If you activate him via the terminal ajacent to him, and choose "Read children a poem", he will go to a room and recite "There Will Come Soft Rains" by Sara Teasdale. The poem was written about the time of the end of World War 1.

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 war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;

And even Spring herself when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.

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[SuperFREEXBOXLIVECOD]

Hey kids lemme tell you a poem about the human race dying before you go to sleep.

[MattsGameplay]

@SuperFREEXBOXLIVECOD :D !!

[Destinystrike]

The most interesting aspect of this is that the entire room is a homage to the story "There Will Come Soft Rains". Primarily checking the street address of the house. 2026 , the year in the story.

[MattsGameplay]

@Destinystrike sounds like someone has been reading the Fallout Wiki ha.

[783tammy4]

mister handy and the other robots like him where abiously made by the british

[EpicRandomDude]

kids where bored to death by him, probally just before the war started...

[peachykatara]

I always found this so sad: they were still holding their teddy bear :(

[DoctorFuhhney]

I wonder what the actor of the minster handy robot was think when he read that poem.

[bravo45th]

I remember going to this house with dog meat, finding Mr. Handy and turning him on. Seeing how interesting it was to see a robot stuck in the past and not in the present. Reciting a child poem to two children skeletons on a bump bed was creepy, walking a dog that didn't exist anymore, going to the grocery store that was left in rubble (Yes I actually protected him to see him go to whatever store was left, there wasn't much left...). One of my favorite littler discovers of the game!

[OverNineThousandths]

at that point those kids had been dead for 200 years.....whoa

[mb259ful]

in fallout new vegas mister handy is found dead at mr houses building at ceasers fort in a genarator room

[JBLaughs]

this is based of a book by Ray Bradbury about a nuclear apocalypse in the year 2033 where a voice run by a computerised house tells that same poem to the houses long dead owners.

[UT3MONTAGE]

'How may i serve you master?... not that i really want to' lol

[masteroutlaw100]

i had to read this story in 8th grade english, creeped me the fuck out then