Fifty years hence, others will see them as they cross, the sun half an hour high;
A hundred years hence, or ever so many hundred years hence, others will see them,
Will enjoy the sunset, the pouring in of the flood-tide, the falling back to the sea of the ebb-tide.
It avails not, neither time or place—distance avails not;
I am with you, you men and women of a generation, or ever so many generations hence;
I project myself—also I return—I am with you, and know how it is.
Just as you feel when you look on the river and sky, so I felt;
Just as any of you is one of a living crowd, I was one of a crowd;
Just as you are refresh’d by the gladness of the river and the bright flow, I was refresh’d;
Just as you stand and lean on the rail, yet hurry with the swift current, I stood, yet was hurried;
Just as you look on the numberless masts of ships, and the thick-stem’d pipes of steamboats, I look’d.

These lines represent how this poem represents the Brooklyn Bridge most in my opinion. Even though the poem was written before the bridge existed and therefore, obviously doesn’t mention the bridge the concept of connection is the link. The individual is connected to other individuals and connected to the crowds in the city. Also there is a connection literally from one borough to the the other and a connection of the past and the future. By saying ‘you’ do something just as ‘I’ do there is an even deeper connecting than the physical crossing and spacial relationship because it mentions the shared feelings as well. The feeling of being refreshed by the ‘gladness’ of the river. A human relationship is formed thanks to a literal and symbolic connection and a physical and spiritual connection.