Goletta's walls, for tactic science fam'd, Boast of the age, impregnable proclaim'd, No dam afford to stop the raging tide, All hearts conjoin'd, and ev'ry nerve applied; The bulwark cracks; the engineer applies Incessant art's destructive energies.
Young Arthur, Subject VI, Lament, l. 2738-2743 - Chadwyck-Healey. 1992