A dogmatic poem - doesn't that sound like something Belloc would come up with?
Glory to God the Father
and to the Son, King of the universe.
Glory to the Spirit,
worthy of praise and all holy.
The Trinity is one God
who created and filled all things:
the heavens with heavenly beings,
the earth with creatures of earth,
the sea, the rivers and springs
with creatures of the waters,
giving life to all things by his Spirit,
that all creatures
might sing the praises of their wise Creator,
who alone gives life and sustains
all life in being.
Above all others, let the creature who reasons
celebrate him always
as the great King and good Father.
Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Dogmatic Poems, XXXI, Hymnus alias: PG 37, 510-511, referenced in Pope John Paul II's Bull of Indiction of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000, Incarnationis Mysterium.
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