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A CONTROVERSIALIST

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 the Bulletin "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 punishment That's worse than earth." But humbly I submitThat he would make a hell wherever sent.