Sunt Leones

The lions who ate the Christians on the sands of the

By indulging native appetites played was now been seen

Not entirely negligible

In consolidating at the very

The position of the Early Christian Church.

Initiatory rights are always

In the lions, it

From contemporary art, made a

Of dyeing Coliseum sands a

Liturgically sacrificial

And if the Christians felt a little blue-Will people being eaten often do.

Theirs was the death, and there's was a crown undying,

A state of things which must be satisfying.

My point which up to this has been

Is that it was the lions who

By chewing up blood gristle flesh and

The martyrdoms on which the church has grown.

I only write this poem because I thought it rather

As if the part the lions played was being overlooked.

By lions' jaws great benefits and blessings were

And so our debt to Lionhood must never be forgotten.