06-‘To Christ': My Response to Bertrand Russell's ‘To Edith'

Following my ‘Arrogant Atheism Answered’, which was based
on Dorothy Day’s ‘Conquered’, the poem she wrote in response
to William Ernest Henley’s bragging poem, ‘Invictus’
(‘Unconquered’), and my ‘The Unbeliever’s Lament’, which
was based on poems by Matthew Arnold and Thomas Hardy,31 I
thought I would use Bertrand Russell’s poem ‘To Edith’ –
which he wrote to his fourth and last wife, Edith Finch Russell –
to produce the following poem of my own.