WHEN CYRUS TOOK THE PERSIAN THRONE
HE GAVE TO DARIUS BABYLON'S RULE
WHILE HE CONTINUED TO EXPAND
HIS ROLE AS KING IN EVERY LAND.
SO DARIUS PARCELLED INTO SHARES
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY RULING PARTS
AND OVER THEM HE PLACED THREE MEN
ON WHOM THE KINGDOM COULD DEPEND.
SOON JEALOUSY BEGAN TO SPREAD
TOWARDS DANIEL, AS THEIR RULING HEAD
SO PLOTS WERE MADE TO BRING HIM DOWN
INCURRING WRATH FROM THOSE AROUND.
SOME TOP OFFICIALS SET A TRAP
WRITING A LAW THAT WOULD DECLARE
"DARIUS THE KING, FOR THIRTY DAYS
THE ONLY GOD TO WHOM MAN PRAYS!"
THEN DARIUS SIGNED THE NEW DECREE
WHICH NO ONE LIVING COULD RESCIND
AND ANY WHO WOULD DISOBEY
WERE FED TO LIONS THAT SAME DAY.
NOW DANIEL KNEW THAT GOD ALONE
IS SOVEREIGN LORD UPON HIS THRONE
DEMANDING WORSHIP EVERY DAY
BY CALLING EVERY MAN TO PRAY.
SO WHEN THE SPIES STAKED OUT HIS HOME
AND FOUND HE PRAYED THREE TIMES A DAY
THEY SHOWED THE KING HIS EVIL DEED
WHICH MEDO-PERSIAN'S LAW DECREED.
AS DANIEL STOOD BEFORE THE KING
TO HEAR THE VERDICT OF HIS FATE
THE HUNGRY LIONS PROWLED AROUND
AWAITING FOOD TO HIT THE GROUND.
WHEN THEY THREW DANIEL IN THE DEN
THE SEAL OF DEATH WAS STAMPED IN PLACE
BUT LITTLE DID THEY KNOW THAT DAY
HOW SHORT A TIME WOULD BE HIS STAY.
WHEN DARIUS COULD NOT SLEEP THAT NIGHT
HE KNEW THAT DANIEL'S GOD WAS RIGHT
YET WAS NOT SURE HE WOULD SURVIVE
UNTIL HE FOUND HIM STILL ALIVE.
THE KING THEN ASKED HOW THAT COULD BE
WITH HUNGRY LIONS ALL AROUND?
"THE ANGEL OF THE LORD TOOK FLIGHT
AND SHUT THE LIONS MOUTHS ALL NIGHT.
SO DANIEL WAS RELEASED THAT DAY
AND THOSE WHO PLOTED HIS DEMISE
WERE ORDERED TO BE THROWN INSTEAD
AS LION FOOD, TILL THEY WERE DEAD.
THEN DARIUS MADE IT VERY CLEAR
THAT DANIEL'S GOD WAS LORD OF ALL
WHO MUST BE WORHSIPPED AND ADORED
AS KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
--B.Pent
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