Book III, 54: On Faith and Reason

True Faith and Reason, are the Soules two Eyes:
Faith evermore lookes upward, and discryes
Objects remote; but Reason can discover
Things onely neere; sees nothing that's above her;
They are not Matches; Often disagree;
And sometimes both are clos'd, and neither see:
Faith viewes the Sun; and Reason, but the shade;
T'one courts the Mistresse; t'other wooes the Maide:
That fees the Fire; This, only but the Flint;
The true-bred Christian alwayes lookes asquint.