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A correspondent has written a 'Letter to the Editor' of the Daily Telegraph, quoting Kipling, in respect of the recent tragic bridge collapse at Genoa, in Italy, as follows:
"The news of the shockig
failure of the bridge in Genoa brings to mind the poem Hymn
of Breaking Strain.composed by Rudyard
Kipling in 1935, the first verse of which reads
THE careful text-books
measure
(Let
all who build beware!)
The load, the shock, the pressure
Material
can bear.
So, when the buckled girder
Lets
down the grinding span,
'The blame of loss, or murder,
Is
laid upon the man.
Not on the
Stuff—the Man!
As so often, Kipling hits the nail on the head.
(signed) George Lamb.
See our notes by John Radcliffe and John McGivering in the New
Reader's Guide.
Alastair Wilson
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