"The Hands & Brains Of Souless Men" - A Pennsylvania Covered Bridge Dish Towel

In my collection of vintage linens is this dish towel featuring "Pennsylvania's Celebrated Rustic Covered Bridges". 

The bridges featured include:

• Snavely's Mill Bridge in Lancaster County,1850,  The longest in Pennsylvania at 349 feet
• Soudersburg Bridge in Lancaster County, 1844
• Kutz's Mill Bridge in Berks County, 1854
• Hay's Bridge in Cumberland County, 1825
• Wehr's Bridge in Lehigh County, 1841
• Erwinna Bridge in Bucks County, Date Unknown
• Buttonwood Bridge in Tioga County, about 1852
• Sachs Bridge in Adams County, 1854
• Valley Forge Bridge in Montgomery & Chester Counties 1865
• Rockwood Bridge in Somerset County Date Unknown
• Clays Bridge in Perry County. Date Unknown
• Bellbank Bridge in Lancaster & Chester Counites, 1861
• Sonestown Bridge in Sullivan County, abt 1869
• Sands Beach Bridge in Dauphin County, Date Unknown
• Union Canal Tunnel Lebanon Counthy, 1825-1827
• Lewisburg Bridge in Union County Date Unknown
• Bentzels Mill Bridge , York County, Date Unknown

At the top is a line from a poem by Anderson Scruggs.  "The hands and brains of souless men Destroy what time will never build again. "  I found the entire poem reprinted in a 1932 issue of the Selinsgrove Times:

THE COVERED BRIDGE
 By Anderson Scruggs

Some part of life becomes oblivion;
Something whose roots lie deep within the heart
Of simple folk Is lost, as one by one
These pioneers of other days depart.

Only the country folk, whose careless tread
Endears a dusty road, can ever know 
The peaceful, clattering Joy of rude planks spread
Above a drowsy creek that gleams below.

Here was a refuge from the sudden showers
That swept like moving music field and wood, 
And here cool, tunneled dark when sultry hours

Danced with white feet beyond the bridge's hood,

Yet there are soulless men whose hand and brain
Tear down what time will never give again.

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An Index Of Covered Bridges In The Susquehanna Valley
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