When Aulus, the nocturnal thief, made prize <br />Of Hermes, swift-wing'd envoy of the skies, <br />Hermes, Arcadia's king, the thief divine, <br />Who when an infant stole Apollo's kine, <br />And whom, as arbiter and overseer <br />Of our gymnastic sports, we planted here; <br />'Hermes,' he cried, 'you meet no new disaster <br />Ofttimes the pupil goes beyond the master.'<br /><br />William Cowper<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/on-a-thief-from-the-greek/
