Queries on Satan

QUERIES ON SATAN,
BY THOMAS TABOE.

If our race consist of ten hundred millions,
And Satan should spend his whole time with the billions,
Pray how long a time would he spend with each soul,
In an age of thirty years should he visit the whole ?

Is Satan omniscient ? or has he to run
From one to another that his work may be done?
If the first, he's a God; an omnipotent evil;
If the last, he's a poor and laborious Devil.

Pray, who made this monster? Did the maker see through
The Whole of the mischief the creature would do ?
If so, was he kind in the work he had done ?
Which damned half our race and murdered his son ?

If to prison they are doomed, and hell is their home,
And comparatively few from headquarters may roam,
Pray, how many infernals must God have created,
If each with a demon is constantly mated ?