Munhall, to save my soul you bravely try,
  Although, to save my soul, I can't say why.
  'Tis naught to you, to me however much—
  Why, bless it! you might save a million such
  Yet lose your own; for still the "means of grace"
  That you employ to turn us from the place
  By the arch-enemy of souls frequented
  Are those which to ensnare us he invented!
  I do not say you utter falsehoods—I
  Would scorn to give to ministers the lie:
  They cannot fight—their calling has estopped it.
  True, I did not persuade them to adopt it.
  But, Munhall, when you say the Devil dwells
  In all the breasts of all the infidels—
  Making a lot of individual Hells
  In gentlemen instinctively who shrink
  From thinking anything that you could think,
  You talk as I should if some world I trod
  Where lying is acceptable to God.
  I don't at all object—forbid it Heaven!—
  That your discourse you temperately leaven
  With airy reference to wicked souls
  Cursing impenitent on glowing coals,
  Nor quarrel with your fancy, blithe and fine,
  Which represents the wickedest as mine.
  Each ornament of style my spirit eases:
  The subject saddens, but the manner pleases.
  But when you "deal damnation round" 'twere sweet
  To think hereafter that you did not cheat.
  Deal, and let all accept what you allot 'em.
  But, blast you! you are dealing from the bottom!