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FAITH AND REASON 
 
 A POEM BY 
 Elizabeth York Case 
 
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FAITH AND REASON 
 
 WO TRAVELERS 
 started on a tour, 
 With trust and 
 knowledge laden ; 
 One was a man 
 
 with mighty brain, 
 
 And one a gentle maiden. 
 
 They joined their hands and 
 
 vowed to be 
 
 Companions for a season. 
 
 The gentle maiden's name 
 
 was Faith 
 
 The mighty man's was Reason. 
 
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II 
 
 E sought all knowledge 
 
 from this world 
 
 And every world anear it ; 
 All matter and all mind was his 
 While hers was only spirit. 
 If any stars were missed from 
 heaven 
 
 His telescope could find them, 
 But while he only found the stars 
 She found the God behind them. 
 
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 E sought for truth, above, 
 
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 'iWr'l All hidden things revealing, 
 
 She only sought it woman-wise 
 
 And found it in her feeling. 
 
 He said, "This earth's a rolling 
 
 ball," 
 
 And so doth science prove it. 
 
 He but discovered that "It moves," 
 
 She found the springs that move it. 
 
IV 
 
 E reads with geologic eye 
 
 InS ^^ e recorc * of the ages, 
 yjgil Unfolding strata he translates 
 Earth's wonder written pages, 
 He digs around a mountain base 
 And measures it with plummet, 
 She leaps it with a single bound 
 And stands upon the summit. 
 
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 E brings to light the hidden 
 
 (ill force 
 jgjgj l In Nature's labyrinths lurking 
 
 And binds it to his onward car 
 
 To do his mighty working. 
 
 He sends his message 'cross the 
 
 earth 
 
 And down where sea gems glisten; 
 
 She sendeth hers to God himself, 
 
 Who bends his ear to listen. 
 
VI 
 
 LL things in science, beauty, 
 
 art, 
 
 In common they inherit, 
 But he has only clasped the form 
 While she has found the spirit. 
 They part, without her, all is dark 
 This knowledge vain and hollow, 
 For Faith has entered in with God 
 Where Reason may not follow. 
 
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