A CONTROVERSIALISTI've sometimes wished that Ingersoll were wiseTo hold his tongue, nor rail against the skies;For when he's made a point some pious dunceLike Bartlett of theBulletin"replies."I brandish no iconoclastic fist,Nor enter the debate an atheist;But when they say there is a God I askWhy Bartlett, then, is suffered to exist.Even infidels that logic might resent,Saying: "There's no place for his punishmentThat's worse than earth." But humbly I submitThat he would make a hell wherever sent.
I've sometimes wished that Ingersoll were wiseTo hold his tongue, nor rail against the skies;For when he's made a point some pious dunceLike Bartlett of theBulletin"replies."I brandish no iconoclastic fist,Nor enter the debate an atheist;But when they say there is a God I askWhy Bartlett, then, is suffered to exist.Even infidels that logic might resent,Saying: "There's no place for his punishmentThat's worse than earth." But humbly I submitThat he would make a hell wherever sent.