Benjamin Sheares Bridge over Singapore River in Singapore

A new song in the air:
Cranes and gantries rise;
Dynamo and diesel hum.
Men in overalls and helmets
Wield machines, consulting plans.
A welder's torch explodes
Into a rush of stars;
Rivets are hammered home till
Hulls of steel emerge…

Modern Singapore according 
to a Edwin Thumboo poem