Hangman's Bridge (Henkersteg) across the Pegnitz River in Nuremberg, Bavaria (Germany)

...
¿mi vil oficio
querrás que siga,
que te maldiga
tal vez querrás?
¡Piensa que un día
al que hoy miras jugar inocente,
maldecido cual yo y delincuente
también verás!

 End of the poem

El Verdugo (The Hangman)

José de Esprocenda

Maxbrücke over the Pegnitz River in Nuremberg, Bavaria (Germany)

In the valley of the Pegnitz, where across broad meadow-lands

Rise the blue Franconian mountains, Nuremberg, the ancient, stands.
Quaint old town of toil and traffic, quaint old town of art and song,
Memories haunt thy pointed gables, like the rooks that round them throng:
Memories of the Middle Ages, when the emperors, rough and bold,
Had their dwelling in thy castle, time-defying, centuries old;
And thy brave and thrifty burghers boasted, in their uncouth rhyme,
That their great imperial city stretched its hand through every clime.

Beginning of the poem Nuremberg

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow