The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-06-19

So be it. Yet / frankly say like him
Just for the human study he affords.
SPEAK put 50 simply that your thoughts can strike him
And he'll betray his spirit in his words
And thus il is that every man accords
Himself the true Amounted Of the Lordk
The mild Jew robs you In the name OF MOSES;
So. The Moslem cuts your throat and thanks MAhomsi
:. faith as--steadfast as Haley's comet;
ri asrsts si ~ sa siSsa Sos S snS vo
And each converts you. or would like to do sOi
IL you refuse, why, hell is yours eternal az
In life. outeast like Robin crusoef
In death fire. caldron internal,
Grim, black surroundings that are far from vern4
And warmer than q matrimonial journal
Each is the Simon pure and all the Others
Mohammedans, Confucians. Buddhists, Tartars,
Heather and Heretcs Christians-these are brothers
And have supplied some t1fteen million martyrs
Since the first and pasha dcnnec their gartefs
Not bad list to come from two small starters
o superstition, what power thou srti
Thou rulst the world while time old and hoary
Religion eer has been thy subtle dart
Hypocrscy. thy cross. eOv--eer.h's best glory.
Thou hast perverted-Hei Is scare less CORY
Than the red page that tells thy gruesofne story.
Thy pious sword has bathed the world IN blood
Thy gentle wrath, ignited CONGREGATIONS;
For forty centuries thou hast wthstood
Successfully the intellect Of nations t
Thou art the nstigatcr OF privations
Tears. sorrows, inqustons and crematicns;
And still the lay-mind closely clings to thee
Poor weak. benshted children seek thy shrine
Than they--they would consgn
The whole Of earth to thee, infallible, divine
But some degenerate still are not all thine.
I've read about the fish that swallowed Jonah
Just q shark might gobble up small ftys
Or as some sweet italian prinsa donna
Might well absorb prince within her eye
I've read about the sun up in the sky;
II Joshua could stop it. could
/ do detest parents cynic smile
Because his child has faith In Santa Claus
When he, himself Il nursing all the while
A like nnonstfosity with no more cause
And with his vacant head discerning flaws ,4i
And recommending religious laws
hate fool whateer you choose to call hIms
hate bgct az 1t may Ds) worse. I.
And yet would not smite him with my curse y
There are few places for him; 20 be terse,
think his proper sphere s--in a hearse.
But this involves some complicated questions,
Some that really meant not to propound--
with all fools dead why, what about the sextonse
And i there hearss enough 70 60 around2
And where on earth, ask could there be found
sufncisnt space to put them under ground9
And who would then pronounce the funeral sertncn7
And who would write 1t for the local pressf
French English, spanish, swsde,Italian. German.
Russian and NorslI all dead Oh what q NEAL
would be gone. and you. too as guess,
And earth would be one manless wilderness
10 be re-peopled BY another Adam
or Eve O. ape: just as the case might BE-
I've studied Genesis. dear Sir Madam.
And delved ten years In Darwins theory, @
And. looking in my glass. feel I'm free
TO say, Mankind is Adams progeny
hut when see the "physogs" of my neighb6rs
In profile, glarins sganst the fair andscapA I'll
I rise In Irish scorn and say "Be jabbers ~
Leuk az thin heads! Jist see 'en blink Al, 49,,
Begorry, nature too has had her scrape.-
Darwin y right-we're sure sprung from an apa"
Tho every mans parcel OF creation
He fancies all, him. is much ar,Ah.
Each one Is subject of inclination
TO be his fellows sovereign more Or Lass.
And thus my observations come to this
No man Is perfect-tho' each thinks he Al
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