That Vice triumphs and Virtue suffers here,

A brand that sovereign justice cannot bear;

Our reason prompts us to a future state,

The last appeal from fortune and from fate:

Where God’s all-righteous ways will be declared;

The bad meet punishment, the good reward.

Dryden.

Though Reason cannot through Faith’s mysteries see,

It sees that there, and such they be;

Though it, like Moses, by a sad command