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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There’s a ballad about this, by the german poet Theodor Fontane. It’s called „Die Brück am Tay“.

Tand, Tand ist das Gebilde von Menschenhand…

It’s about that human engineering in the end is powerless against the forces Nature.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCck%E2%80%99_am_Tay?wprov=sfti1#Inhalt

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Reminds me of a Kipling poem, about engineers, humanity and how burdened we are.

https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_strain.htm