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At Pudens' Reading Of Martial's Poems
Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens,
and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.
---2 Timothy 4:21
Martial likes puzzles of idenity.
Some of his verses briefly mention me;
some of them mention a centurion
who shares, with me, only a given name.
But, I assure you, we are not the same.
His bellicose vocation is not one
I share. He thinks himself an eager son
of Roman legions and, also, of Mars.
I am a son of faith---not long begun---
in Christ, Who filled the night sky with its stars;
Christ Jesus, Lord, Whose Light outshines the sun.
Starward
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