Archimedes

To Archimedes once a scholar came, "Teach me," he said, "the art that won thy fame;-- The godlike art which gives such boons to toil, And showers such fruit upon thy native soil;-- The godlike art that girt the town when all Rome's vengeance burst in thunder on the wall!" "Thou call'st art godlike--it is so, in truth, And was," replied the master to the youth, "Ere yet its secrets were applied to use-- Ere yet it served beleaguered Syracuse:-- Ask'st thou from art, but what the art is worth? The fruit?--for fruit go cultivate the earth.-- He who the goddess would aspire unto, Must not the goddess as the woman woo!"