When, long ago, the Gods created Earth,

In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.

The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;

Yet were they too remote from humankind.

To fill this gap, and join the rest to man,

Th' Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.

A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,

Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a NIGGER.