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The Centaur led a double life: / Two natures in perpetual strife / He had, that never could agree / On what the bill-of-fare should be; / For when the man-half set his heart / On taking dinner _a la carte_, / The horse was sure to cast his vote / Unswervingly for _table d'OAT_!
A pretty sort of life to lead; / The horse in time went off his feed, / The hungry man was nigh demented, / When one day -- OATMEAL was invented!