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There's a poem carved into the stonework of Washington Union Station, part of the art installation The Progress of Railroading from c. 1909: the old mechanic a

by retrac 7mo ago

There's a poem carved into the stonework of Washington Union Station, part of the art installation The Progress of Railroading from c. 1909: the old mechanic arts / controlling new forces / build new highways / for goods and men / override the ocean / and make the very ether / carry human thought the desert shall rejoice / and blossom as the rose

willturman 7mo ago
> the desert shall rejoice / and blossom as the rose Or, rewritten for the Los Angeles Aqueduct: the desert shall wither / and blossom in a plume of dust [1] [1] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-19/owens-valley-dust https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-06-19/owens-v...