A MARTYR'S GRAVE.
"AMANTO FILIO DVLCISSIMO
QVI VIXIT ANNIS DVOBVS. ET. D. X.V.
N PACE."[1]
N the classic Appian way,The Roman street of tombs,
Stands a lone Church, beneath whose floor
Thread the drear catacombs;
In dismal labyrinth they wind,
These footpaths of the dead,
Whereto in early Christian times,
The persecuted fled.
- ↑ An inscription in the Catacombs of St. Agnese, on the slab of a child's grave; a martyr of two years old.
