Isaac Newton <br /> <br />For years he fished in the nearby lake, <br />but the fish would never take his bait. <br />So he baited his hook with crusty-bread, <br />but even that didn’t turn their head. <br /> <br />He changed the bait to a lump of cheese <br />and thought this would tempt and tease, <br />but alas no bites from dusk till dawn, <br />so he changed the bait to boiled corn. <br /> <br />With no success with boiled wheat <br />Newton would not accept defeat. <br />So he put a juicy worm upon the hook, <br />but even this got no second look. <br /> <br />He cast aside his tackle and thoughts of fish, <br />and became a mathematician and physicist. <br />One sunny morning beneath an apple tree <br />he sat reading a book of philosophy. <br /> <br />From the lake a fish leaped high above his head, <br />but an apple fell down and hit him instead. <br />He looked up for the fish and it fell onto his lap, <br />so he ate the apple and put the fish back.<br /><br />Orlando Belo<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/isaac-newton/
