Religion

A Doxology

by Robert Stephen Hawker 1803–1875

From The Poetical Works (1899)

Religion

Oh awful, mystic, Three-and-One —
The Father, Holy Ghost, and Son !
Other in person and in name :
In life and nature, God, the same.

The Father, first — the only Son —
The Spirit, mingling Three-in-One ;
All, gathered in their sole abode,
The very and eternal God.

There, when our day of peace began,
Throned in their midst, Behold the Man !
Jesu ! the God who died, was he —
The Second of the awful Three.

Then fame and honour ever be,
In heaven, to God, the Trinity !
On earth, let equal praise be done,
And worship we the Three and One.

MLA

Hawker, Robert Stephen. “A Doxology.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hawker_rs/114/.

Chicago

Hawker, Robert Stephen. “A Doxology.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hawker_rs/114/.

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