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The Satyr lived in times remote, / A shape half-human and half-goat, / Who, having all Man's faults combined / With a Goat's nature unrefined, / Was not what you would call a bright / Example or a shining light!
Far be it from me to condone / The Satyr's sins, yet I must own / I like to think there were a few / Young Satyrs who to Heaven flew, / And when Saint Peter, thunder browed, / Seeing them, cried, "No goats allowed! " / Although the gate slammed quickly to, / Somehow their human halves got through; / Whereat the kindly saint relented, / And that's how Cherubs were invented!