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I've sometimes wished that Ingersoll were wise / To hold his tongue, nor rail against the skies; / For when he's made a point some pious dunce / Like Bartlett of the "Bulletin" "replies."
I brandish no iconoclastic fist, / Nor enter the debate an atheist; / But when they say there is a God I ask / Why Bartlett, then, is suffered to exist.
Even infidels that logic might resent, / Saying: "There's no place for his punishment / That's worse than earth." But humbly I submit / That he would make a hell wherever sent.