Arthur Ravanel Jr. Bridge crossing the Cooper River joining Charleston with Mount Pleasant, South Carolina (United States)

“Old man,” said a fellow pilgrim near, “You are wasting your strength with building here; 
Your journey will end with the ending day,
You never again will pass this way;
You’ve crossed the chasm, deep and wide,
Why build this bridge at evening tide?”
The builder lifted his old gray head;

“Good friend, in the path I have come,” he said,
“There followed after me to-day
A youth whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm that has been as naught to me
To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be;
He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;
Good friend, I am building this bridge for him!”

Poem The Bridge Builder

Will Allen Dromgoole