A shiny purple coat
For an always tacit priest
Eating golden oats
A jewel-necklaced beast

It shines plain irony
A steady consul oath
Animal insanity
For the senate to loathe

The dinner is placed
In the ivory trough
Sneering at their hate
His sarcastic scoff

A house made of marble
In the unicorn dome
Under the crafty corbel
A fortune for Rome