While both show the unknown, I think the theme is You can know where things go but not where they go from. The theme is shown at the end of Wind on the Hill when they say where the wind comes nobody knows. It is also shown in There will come soft rains when the fire starts and the house witnesses an explosion.
The narrator in There will come soft rains Is continuing to work and doesn’t seem to be aware of its surroundings. The narrator is the house