Portsmouth wind turbine disassembly begins (with Rilke quote)

wenn ein Glückliches fällt<

In the tennis courts by the high school, cranes and other heavy equipment are staging to begin the disassembly of Portsmouth's wind turbine. The town has entered into a public-private partnership with a developer replace the current machine, installed in 2009, which suffered a major gearbox failure that took it offline. While it's a good deal for the town, it's still sad to see this device, which went up with such high hopes, coming down.

It reminded me of the last lines of Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies:

Und wir, die an steigendes  Glück
denken, empfänden die Rührung,
die uns beinah bestürzt,
wenn ein Glückliches fällt.

You can find reasonably good translations online here and here and an idiosyncratic one by Robert Hunter here (For Hunter fans, there's an interview with him that touches on his process).